<story><title>Parse is shutting down today</title><url>https://status.parse.com/incidents/6mpkbscqw6p9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also confused.  &amp;quot;API as a service&amp;quot; sounds to me like &amp;quot;service as a service&amp;quot;... ok, it&amp;#x27;s a service, but what does it &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt;?</text></item><item><author>flukus</author><text>&amp;gt; Parse was an API as a service. The idea being that you don&amp;#x27;t need your own servers and parse would provide API, database, push messaging and so on.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m still unclear. It&amp;#x27;s some sort of hosted database+services?</text></item><item><author>jasonm23</author><text>Parse was an API as a service.  The idea being that you don&amp;#x27;t need your own servers and parse would provide API, database, push messaging and so on.&lt;p&gt;That said, I never used it, I saw it appear, had a look, decided what it offered was too rudimentary to be scalable, and moved on.&lt;p&gt;That said, as an open source offering, it&amp;#x27;s quite interesting.&lt;p&gt;This post answers the basic question, what is parse:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.parse.com&amp;#x2F;announcements&amp;#x2F;what-is-parse-server&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.parse.com&amp;#x2F;announcements&amp;#x2F;what-is-parse-server&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>trumbitta2</author><text>And nowhere in there I was able to find what&amp;#x27;s Parse and what does the open-source Parse Server do.</text></item><item><author>gfosco</author><text>During this year-long shutdown&amp;#x2F;migration process, the open-source and community maintained Parse Server is what most people switched to. Parse is yours now.  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ParsePlatform&amp;#x2F;parse-server&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ParsePlatform&amp;#x2F;parse-server&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webmaven</author><text>I would call Parse a &amp;quot;Backend as a Service&amp;quot;[0], akin to Firebase[1]. &amp;quot;API as a Service&amp;quot; is more like Apiary (bought by Oracle) or Apigee (bought by Google).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Backend_as_a_service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Backend_as_a_service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;firebase.google.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;firebase.google.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Parse is shutting down today</title><url>https://status.parse.com/incidents/6mpkbscqw6p9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also confused.  &amp;quot;API as a service&amp;quot; sounds to me like &amp;quot;service as a service&amp;quot;... ok, it&amp;#x27;s a service, but what does it &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt;?</text></item><item><author>flukus</author><text>&amp;gt; Parse was an API as a service. The idea being that you don&amp;#x27;t need your own servers and parse would provide API, database, push messaging and so on.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m still unclear. It&amp;#x27;s some sort of hosted database+services?</text></item><item><author>jasonm23</author><text>Parse was an API as a service.  The idea being that you don&amp;#x27;t need your own servers and parse would provide API, database, push messaging and so on.&lt;p&gt;That said, I never used it, I saw it appear, had a look, decided what it offered was too rudimentary to be scalable, and moved on.&lt;p&gt;That said, as an open source offering, it&amp;#x27;s quite interesting.&lt;p&gt;This post answers the basic question, what is parse:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.parse.com&amp;#x2F;announcements&amp;#x2F;what-is-parse-server&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.parse.com&amp;#x2F;announcements&amp;#x2F;what-is-parse-server&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>trumbitta2</author><text>And nowhere in there I was able to find what&amp;#x27;s Parse and what does the open-source Parse Server do.</text></item><item><author>gfosco</author><text>During this year-long shutdown&amp;#x2F;migration process, the open-source and community maintained Parse Server is what most people switched to. Parse is yours now.  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ParsePlatform&amp;#x2F;parse-server&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ParsePlatform&amp;#x2F;parse-server&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrlocke</author><text>The first iOS app I built used parse for the entire backend. We basically used it as a database in the cloud accessible by multiple clients (it can accommodate fancier uses as well). We didn&amp;#x27;t really run any custom code on the server side, Parse basically provided access to a shared db across our client instances. It allowed us to build a simple location sharing app in a few hours.</text></comment>