[schwarrrtz]

I'm involved in a project that uses Parse, and by this point the client SDKs are so thoroughly embedded into our codebase that changing to another backend system would indeed be a fair bit of work. Apparently modular design is a thing.

Fortunately, Parse has provided us with more advanced warning and open-source support that I could ever have expected. This is consistent with my experience using the service; you probably don't remember, but you personally responded to a tweet I sent regarding an outage, and followed up to make sure that the issue was resolved for me.

Many thanks to you and your team for all your hard work.

[lacker]

Well the nice thing with this migration is that you don't have to rip out the client SDKs. After migrating the backend to the open source stuff, you just have to change the serverURL and you can point the same mobile app to the new backend.

Thanks for your kind words ;-)

[schwarrrtz]

Yup! And hosting the Node server on Heroku/MongoLab should be a reasonable solution, especially if the open source community takes this and runs with it.