This announcement just underscores the importance of having full control over your backend. Yes, it&#x27;s more work, but if you&#x27;re writing apps that seriously depend on backend services, it&#x27;s simply too much risk to depend on anyone else.<p>Fortunately in this case Facebook offered generous lead time to migrate off Parse.com, but they were not obligated to do so, and other providers might not be so generous in the future.<p>Developers who depended on Parse now have an interesting decision to make: export their data into MongoDB and start running their own servers, or look for an alternative BaaS provider to do it for them (which carries the same risk of that provider shutting down in the future).