Guide: How to Migrate Your App from Parse to AWS?

Feb 10, 2016 | App Modernization, Cloud, Data, Mobile, Social Media

Mobile Apps

Featured article by Ritesh Patil, co-founder of Mobisoft Infotech

Facebook’s latest move on shutting down Parse.com came across as a shock to many! It’s important to take a look at the other alternatives and pick the right cloud computing service. Here’s a quick guide on how to migrate your application from Parse to AWS!

Facebook announced a very surprising move by announcing the shutdown of Parse.com which directly indicates Parse Migration Services. Popular BaaS used to develop the backend infrastructure of mobile applications is going to put an end to its activities by January 27th next year. So does this call for Parse Migration? Completely and the Parse migration services have to be completed within this year!

Choosing an apt cloud computing service is very important to perform data migration and move their applications accordingly. Parse.com has introduced features and functionalities that makes the migration procedure a whole lot easier and provides maintenance of these application till the total shutdown. Thus, Parse experts recommend to perform Parse migrations services and move off the platform as soon as possible and moreover, getting your app stuck on a platform that does not exist anymore isn’t a great idea. Which is why it would be better if you can take a look at the most popular alternatives to perform Parse Migration upon.

There is no doubt that cloud computing platforms has to be the best: be it Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce Heroku or Google Compute Engine – performing Parse Migration with these are easy and migrating your apps on any of these is a great idea!

If you are planning to perform Parse Migration Services on any of the above, Amazon Web Services is highly recommended as it offers a large number of features at extremely competitive rates. Looking at Heroku cloud computing, it offers its Parse migration experts the benefits of quick deployment and reduction in costs. And in case Parse stops working, Heroku could be the simplest choice thanks to an already existing partnership between Heroku and Parse.

AWS offers a large variety of features when it comes to building and running mobile applications that include user identity, push notifications, storage, delivery of content, application testing and real-time app analytics. No matter whatever your choices are, the company you choose for Parse migration services must possess these attributes:

– iOS and Android SDK availability

– Being Node.JS compatible

– Automated Backup

After reading the following steps, you will be able to migrate from Parse to AWS or any other cloud platform option. Parse migration hasa few options of how to go about it: you can either start from scratch and create a totally new server based on any of the above listed platforms or you can follow Parse migration guides. The first option can take up a lot of time and would also require a lot of financial investments.

As recommended by Parse Migration experts, this process requires just 5 steps as enlisted below:

Step 1: You have to take the data from your Parse-hosted application to a self-hosted database, for example – Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance or as suggested by Parse, MongoDB.

Step 2: You set application a neighborhood Parse Server and subsequently you have your application running locally yet associated with the information situated in the database (watch Step 1).

Step 3: You relocate the Cloud code to Parse Server. Note that a percentage of the local Parse modules are not accessible on Parse server, which is going to bring about some incredible disadvantage to engineers.

Step 4: You send your Parse Server to any framework supplier (AWS, Heroku, and so forth.) Now you roll out all the important improvements to the code utilizing the stage backend and get a restored application.

Step 5: You distribute your new application in any of the App Stores replacing the current one.

If you are looking at detailed instructions on Parse migration services, you can check the Parse migration guide. When you join hands with a mobile application development company or any firm that possesses a great deal of experience at Parse migration, backend architecture and cloud computing, the process gets very simple! Good luck.

 

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Author’s Bio:

Ritesh Patil [Twitter] is the co-founder of Mobisoft Infotech that helps startups and enterprises in mobile technology. He loves technology, especially mobile technology. He’s an avid blogger and writes on mobile application. He works in an application development company.

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