What is Game Sparks?

What is Game Sparks?
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Mobile gaming is becoming an increasingly popular niche. And most amazingly, now you can find tons of solutions which are meant to back your mobile gaming solutions with ease. Here we have an in-dept analysis of a most sparkling games BaaS solution which is essential for you to know.

Key Takeaways

  • AWS will retire Gamesparks on March 31, 2022
  • New games will be disabled
  • Migration other services needs to happen before September 30, 2022

What is Heroku? Secrets unlocked…

What is Heroku? Secrets unlocked…
What is Heroku

This article will provide an in-depth analysis of Heroku, its significant advantages & disadvantages, pricing structure, and core features. It will also cover the differences between using Heroku vs. AWS and highlight the key Heroku alternatives.

Platform as a Service options help businesses create and manage high-performance applications. A reliable PaaS can help developers achieve streamlined API development and perform effortless database, IoT, communications, and process management. ​

Heroku is now regarded as one of the most reliable platforms as a service offering for businesses of all sizes. Look at this popular platform’s features, benefits, and limitations below.


Web Data Scraping using Parse

Web Data Scraping using Parse

After we published our open database for Coronavirus COVID-19, which is based on Wikipedia’s data, some people started asking how we collected data in an automated fashion. This article will teach you how to write a data scraper (or data collector, data miner, etc) in Back4app using Cloud Code Functions that will automatically collect content from a given URL, filter the important data and store it in Parse.


Firebase vs Amplify | What are differences?

Firebase vs Amplify | What are differences?
Firebase vs Amplify

Technology is advancing at a fast pace rate, and mobile technology is arguably the pacesetter of this revolution. Mobile app users are consistently demanding the latest features on their devices and apps. This demand for novel features puts developers under pressure. They need to roll out features and updates faster than ever to remain competitive in a consumer-centered market.  With the advent of backend service, developers can now update apps and add innovative features without any hassles.  This article analyses Firebase vs. AWS Amplify; these two platforms are among the leading backend platforms in the world today.


The best Heroku alternatives in 2020

The best Heroku alternatives in 2020
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Heroku is a PaaS (platform as a service) which fulfills the requirements of cloud service provider the times. There was a hued problem about the configuring the server from scratch but when It came in the market, it gave a solution which made app development, scaling and deployment such an easy process that their services made them the well-known figure in the community of developers.

Why using Heroku?

In the field of cloud service, they have ruled for some years but in some recent times there are developers who are noticed to be searching for the Heroku alternatives. In my opinion, there is nothing that they have not done in the field of the cloud services but due to the switching of developers from Heroku alternatives, this research has been made which will let you know why are the developers switching and the benefits of switching to those alternatives as compared to Heroku.

The first thing to know is the reason of switching away from Heroku. And by doing a little research in online communities, it is found that the developers were facing these major issues.

  • The pricing policies of Heroku as it was getting expensive.
  • The problem of sleeping apps.

Heroku was increasing their prices. AS there was a term known as “dyno” which was required every time when you were scaling your application. But whenever you were scaling your application, multiple dynos were required by Heroku for providing their services. It was known that the services which Heroku was providing to its customers were backed to its AWS infrastructure which meant that they had to increase prices time to time in order to get a reasonable profit figure.

The second problem which was sleeping apps. It means that the services providers will at put your app to sleep after some time of inactivity. This was done by the service providers in order to free up some of their resources space for a temporary period of time and this was reversed whenever there was a we request made for that app which will make that app available again in 10 to 20 seconds. This was not very good for some customers which got frustrated because they were already paying high prices for getting the services.


Why is Parse the future of Backend as A Service?

Why is Parse the future of Backend as A Service?
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If you are a developer and you are using the coded language through mobile application or web app then using it is scalable and cool. Being a pro or an amateur is not associated with it in this context. Have you ever heard about Parse Server? If you are a developer then its use is good for saving your time and good for your interest. Before going into details of the Parse, we should know something about Baas Service. You must know about it in the details.


Heroku vs. Parse |What are the differences?

Heroku vs. Parse |What are the differences?
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In 2020, Heroku and Parse are two great platforms to speedup application development. Reading this article, you will understand the differences between these two platforms.

With the increase in the needs of developing the application and websites, it is becoming difficult for the people to manage the technical aspect of these applications alongside the maintenance of their content. It is owing to the reason that the need for continuous changes and the up-gradation of the data has increases.

This stress of development of the applications and the maintenance of all technical activities has become easier with the innovation of the clouding platforms, which develop and run the applications and provide more time to the users to work on creative side rather than the worry of maintaining the functioning of the technical work.


Parse Server vs Google Firebase

Parse Server vs Google Firebase
Parse Server vs Google Firebase

In 2020 Parse Server and Google Firebase are the two most used backend platforms. Reading this article you will learn the differences between these two amazing app development platforms.

Google has been devoted a lot to improve Google Firebase from the last few years. It can provide a uniform platform to develop android, web and iOS applications. Notifications, indexing, Ad Mob, analytics, authentication, test lab, VR/AR, are some of the most interesting features which have been introduced in the latest versions of Google Firebase. However, on the other hand, Parse Server can also be an amazing option to build new applications and APIs. However, to know more about both of these solutions, digging deep into Parse Server vs Google Firebase can be an effective idea. So, have a look at the Parse Server vs Google Firebase given below, to know which of these platforms can be the best for your project. 


Database Publishing Software

The Database Hub Software project on Back4app was launched to help people to Publish any data they want on the web(Xls, CSV, complete databases) and also consume/use data from others. Also, we wanted to provide an option for people to benefit each other from working together to acquire more complete and accurate data by working together on a Data project using the Databse HUB.


How to Publish a Database

How to Publish a Database

In this article, I’m going to detail how you can create, import data and publish a database on Database HUB.

There are no prerequisites required to Publish the Data you want. If you have scrapped or exported this data from another source the only recommendation is to convert those data into CSV format.


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