Parse Server will be retired on January 28, 2017

jdbc

http://blog.parse.com/announcements/moving-on/

SinisterSoft

It has gone open source though.

antix

Hmm, never heard of it.

ChrisF

I have an app deeply dependent upon it, but only for premium (subscription) features so the fact I will now have an increased monthly bill to host the server and mongodb is ok.

However it has not really gone open source. The actual Parse server code is written in a totally different language.
What they have made is an alternative Parse server that has now been open sourced.

Once they add file handling (missing in first release) to it (which they are working on) - should be easy job to move it all to my own instance, but I am giving it 6 months for the bugs to be ironed out.

However the real thing to take from this is....
You can not rely upon ANY middleware. I know people using all sorts of middleware for highscores, logins, messaging etc. and any of them could just be moments from being killed.

My initial feeling of p!ssed off has now gone to a state that if some talented dev's take an interest in the 'new server' it could actually be a good thing!

ChrisF

So lesson learnt.. Unless you can host it in your own server and maintain it yourself.. Run away !

SinisterSoft

I'm taking a risk with clan of the cloud, but it's only for things like leaderboards, etc. If it can't be reached then play services, etc are used instead.

I've been thinking though of coding my own system and releasing it free - it would likely be compiled code though for speed (cpu time is expensive) - not using rails or php.

jdbc

I have several games using Parse.com (Animal Wild Rescue for instance)

talis

In this example at least the company-parse choose to minimize the ill effects of shutting down their services. They make required announcements early and making the people ready for what to be happened.
But even the best case scenario there will be problems i guess.
Wish that you guys will not be effected at all and everything will be solved.

antix

@SinisterSoft - use noobhub and connect it with LokiJS

SinisterSoft

Maybe, I was thinking of going compiled though rather than using scripts.

antix

@SinisterSoft - neat. I'd be keen to see that

nodejs is pretty quick though.

jdbc

There is a guide to migrate Parse to Heroku or AWS. I will move my app to Heroku.

https://parse.com/docs/server/guide