Why did Facebook decide to shut down Parse?
Parse never made sense to me.<p>I could see a service like Parse being useful, but it would need to be owned &#x2F; operated by a nonprofit in order to gain any adoption. Otherwise, it&#x27;s just another proprietary platform that will get shut off or changed once Facebook (or whoever) pivots to another business model to address that market. There&#x27;s certainly demand, but I think most developers are wary about putting their company&#x27;s tech stack at the mercy of a profit-driven company that may abandon them.<p>In the end though, I just don&#x27;t think Parse offered enough over existing solutions like AWS and Azure. Both those ecosystems can easily scale from low-end mobile apps (like Parse was designed for) or huge enterprise apps.<p>It also didn&#x27;t help that Facebook was unable to onboard a single major IoT vendor onto Parse - IMO this was probably the reason they ended up killing it. If there was zero interest from existing players in the industry, they may have figured there&#x27;s not much of a market there.