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I am kind of amazed the author didn't mention Parse once.

• barbecue_sauce 6y ago
  I was exposed to Parse, but was it ever widely used/popular?
  • asciimike 6y ago
    Yes, it was a fairly popular BaaS offering during 2014-2016 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=parse-platform%2Cfirebase%2Crealm https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=parse-platfor...
  • gman83 6y ago
    It was definitely popular. It used to be the go to solution on r/AndroidDev for people wanting a simple backend solution without having much experience. Everyone switched to Google Firebase after Facebook shut it down.
  • gfosco 6y ago
    It's still actively developed. https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server
• cameronfraser 6y ago
  Why? The discussion is about IaaS not SaaS