Parse Explains Their Cloud Stack
James Yu
We’re currently in the golden age of builders. There has never been a better time to build apps that solve the exact needs of consumers and businesses. As I write this, countless entrepreneurs are busy at work building their products and preparing to distribute them to the world. It’s an exciting time to be in technology.
Our goal at Parse is to enable developers to build high quality apps faster. We provide a platform that takes care of all the plumbing necessary when building rich and connected apps. Two years after our launch, over 70,000 developers are creating apps on our platform.
Developers love our platform because it gives them leverage. In this day and age, every hour you’re rebuilding the wheel is an hour not spent on the core of your product. You need to maximize your time on designing what makes your product special, and then figuring out your distribution model.
In other words, if you’re spending most of your time thinking about your JSON serialization method, you’re doing it wrong (unless, of course, you’re making a developer platform).
At Parse, we practice what we preach. We could not have built the company without the help of these stellar services: