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George Batschinski

Baas vs PaaS: Which is a better option?

Baas vs PaaS: Which is a better option?

Baas vs PaaS – Understand the differences

Most commonly, it becomes quite confusing for people to understand the world of BaaS vs PaaS terminologies.

Suppose you are the one who is connected with the industry of development in any way. In that case, it is imperative for you at present to understand the difference between the two most beautiful and essential terminologies of the world of cloud computing. These terminologies are meant to change the traditional ways of software development, whether web or mobile application development.

Keep reading to have a look at detailed information regarding BaaS vs Paas.


George Batschinski

Top BaaS Providers in 2025 – Which is the best option for you?

The use of cloud computing models has promptly enhanced among different kinds of businesses, and BaaS is also one of them. Indeed, Backend as a Service (BaaS) vendors grant the companies the best opportunities to emphasize frontend operations because BaaS providers take care of all server-side tasks.

Although the cloud computing industry is packed with numerous backend service vendors, but this article is going to mention one of the best BaaS providers with all of their essential details.


Alex Kusmenkovsky

Instagram Clone App using SwiftUI and GraphQL – HomeView

Instagram Clone App using SwiftUI and GraphQL – HomeView

Today in part 4 of our Instagram clone App with GraphQL we will continue learning some SwiftUI, building our Home view.

In our previous articles, we learned how to sign up a user and how to log in a user and created the Profile view with the respective UIs in our Instagram clone App. Today we will reuse some of that code and create something similar to a UIScrollView with lots of content.

Fast your seat belts and let’s get it going!

For better learning, download the iOS Instagram Clone project with source code.


Alex Kusmenkovsky

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – ProfileView

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – ProfileView

Today in part 3 of our Instagram clone App with GraphQL we will get deeper into SwiftUI, building our Profile view.

We will learn to reuse structs in SwiftUI and discuss a few controls: VStack, HStack, GeometryReader, Text, Button, Spacer, Image, Divider among others.

In our previous articles, we learned how to sign up a user and how to log in a user, with the respective UIs in our Instagram clone App. Today we will make it much nicer.

Fast your seat belts and let’s get it going!

For better learning, download the iOS Instagram Clone project with source code.


Alex Kusmenkovsky

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – Login

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL – Login

In our previous post about how to create an Instagram clone app, you learned how to configure everything to have SwiftUI up and running in XCode 11, and created a fully working Sing Up view with GraphQL.

Today we will learn how to create a login view and have the user log out.

We will be needing the project from the previous post, so if you didn’t follow that one, I strongly suggest that you do.

Buckle your seat belts and let’s go!

For better learning, download the iOS Instagram Clone project with source code.


Back4app Editorial Team

Sashido Alternatives: Top 8 Competitors

Sashido Alternatives: Top 8 Competitors

Top 8 Alternatives to Sashido

Sashido can help the developers to create serverless applications quicker with scalable JSON Rest, GraphQL API, Node JS. Even more, it comes with an easy to use object and file storage, CMS. It will never let the developers start their APIs from scratch. No coding is required to manage the services of applications. It offers flexible opportunities to develop cloud functions, , NPM modules, Node JS and other Cloud Jobs in a more effective way. This can let the developers manage their backend services like a professional and can provide an easier way to customize applications to the users.

However, when it comes to the best backend providers then there are various names that can take place as Alternatives to Sashido. To know which are the best Sashido competitors, you must have a look at the following information.


George Batschinski

GraphQL Hosting

GraphQL Hosting

It’s no mystery that every developer wants to make high-quality applications, and if you’re one of them, we are here to assist you in finding a straightforward way to implement and host a GraphQL database. In the past, I’ve been an assiduous REST user, but my concerns about its complexity, over fetching requests and data transfer costs have led me to explore other alternatives.

In addition to some first-tier GraphQL hosting providers such as Back4App, there’s a frequently expanding list of cloud service providers that allow affordable GraphQL hosting.

In this tutorial, I’ll also describe some of the best cloud options to host GraphQL APIs; some providers that are less established but still useful to developers. The tutorial will cover the following hosting options:

  • Parse
  • Back4App
  • Graphcool
  • AWS App Sync
  • Hasura


George Batschinski

GraphQL BaaS – Backend as a Service

GraphQL BaaS – Backend as a Service
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Creating the next big mobile app is an expensive and time-consuming process. Taking your idea to life demands time, energy, and financial resources. I will explore how new technologies like GraphQL will reduce your time to market and speed up your app development process.

This article will explain the benefits of using GraphQL together with Backend as a Service platform, and here is a summary of what you will learn:


Alex Kusmenkovsky

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL

An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL

Today we are starting a series of blog posts that will teach you how to use a lot of cool tools to build your own Social Network: an application that resembles Instagram.

We won’t save up on tech and will be using the latest and greatest: Parse, GraphQL, some NodeJS and especially the (yet to be released) latest Apple’s framework SwiftUI. 

This will take a few posts in order to be fully functional, but when we get there, you will realize how simple it can be to get your ideas up and running with very little effort here at Back4app.

For better learning, download the iOS Instagram Clone project with source code.

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