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Alysson Melo

A Serverless Database Platform

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The benefits of parse server as a serverless database cannot be overemphasized when we take cost-effectiveness into consideration. Many of us never really know what it means or takes to migrate our apps from one Parse Server hosting provider or BaaS provider to another. We never really know the process of building or maintaining servers for our own apps or choosing the best backend service providers for our applications.  The usual story of “you need to focus on your application development; we’ll take care of the rest for you” this is still a reality with parse server as a serverless database platform. Most of us can now look ahead to the future for the best way to keep our apps running without the challenges of infrastructure maintenance and any possible future migration.


Alysson Melo

The secret of Parse and Facebook

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Over the last few years, open source has become the “default” way of building software. Currently, the world of open source is witnessing a plethora of innovations at a considerably high pace. Many of today’s business models are built around free, open source technology. As a result, enterprises are adequately providing support on various open source components and are increasingly shifting their workloads towards open data architecture.


Alysson Melo

Android App for Raspberry Pi

In our previous tutorials on IoT, we covered how to setup a Raspberry Pi and how to connect it to Parse Server using Back4App API to save objects to the server and to perform Queries and Live Queries.

Now we cover how to reproduce everything done on the Raspberry side to the App side. In this tutorial, we describe an Android App to interact with the IoT device configured earlier. From the Parse Server side, the App does the same tasks as the Raspberry: writes objects and performs Queries and Live Queries. Please note these functionalities may be useful even if you do not plan to develop an IoT application!

Parse has proven to be an amazing framework to crate IoT applications. In 2020, with the addition of the GraphQL API protocol it provides an even better way to retrieve data.  


Alysson Melo

Parse hosting in any cloud environment using Back4App

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It’s no secret to anyone that Back4App is making substantial changes in the BaaS market with its new approach: BaaS revolution. We are here to proclaim that now you can bring your Parse Server self-hosting App to Back4App, without any complications. But why should you do that? Here are a few good reasons to consider taking that move seriously.