Memorial entry / parse-hosted-service

Parse Hosted Service

Shutdown Verified database Facebook — Verified
You had let mobile apps pretend backend engineering was optional, and for a while you were correct. When Facebook pulled the plug, an entire generation learned what migration weekend meant.

You had hosted Parse applications and data before Facebook shut the managed service down in early 2017.

Evidence

official archive Announced

This source records when Parse Hosted Service was shut down and how the provider framed the end of service.

Source

https://web.archive.org/web/20160129151632/https://parse.com/blog/the-future-of-parse

Archived docs

https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/https://parse.com/docs

Contributor note

You taught a lot of us to trust managed backends exactly once.

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