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Why Facebook Really Shut Down Parse (medium.com)

Posted by timothy on from the parse-this-buddy dept.

New submitter isisilik writes: For those working in the 'aaS' business the Parse shutdown was the main topic of conversation this weekend. So why did Facebook decide to shut down their developer platform? The author claims that Facebook never wanted to host apps to begin with, they just wanted developers to use Facebook login. And he builds up a good case.

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  1. The one lesson developers should learn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is that they need to do actual programming, not just glue together scripts from a grab-bag of cloud services and hope they never change or shut down. Of course, you need actual programmers for this, not hipster script-kiddies.