Facebook has just given developers a year to stop relying on its hosted Parse services, announcing it will shut down the services it acquired when it purchased the company of the same name in 2013.
That's bad news for people who have come to rely on the developer platform
for things like providing push notifications, analytics and a server
back end for applications. On Jan. 28, 2017, Facebook will stop
providing those services.
Developers who don't want to rewrite their applications to work with a new back-end service provider can follow a migration guide
from Parse to make their applications work with an independent MongoDB
instance and a new open-source Parse Server that's running on
Salesforce-owned developer platform provider Heroku.
The move comes as something of a surprise since Parse was a star of
Facebook's recent F8 developer conferences. Just last month, Parse
launched a set of new tools to help developers work with Apple's watchOS
and tvOS last, and at the time, Parse Product Manager Supratik Lahiri
promised more updates in the future.
Facebook said in a statement that it plans to dedicate more resources to
creating "high-impact products and services in areas like analytics,
monetization, discovery, and authentication." That points to the company
doubling down on its free services for developers, like Analytics and
the Login service that lets users authenticate with applications through
their Facebook accounts.
Source: ComputerWorld
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