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I think Backend-as-a-Service providers are a good step towards a place we want to be, although I still think we're not super close to using such services to deploy complex business logic on.

Services like parse cloud code and AWS lambda are another step closer.

Context: We (me + couple of collaborators) are writing a similar platform for ourselves, although the purpose is dogfood more than $.

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Aws lambda does look like a particularly large innovation regarding complexity management. Anyone have stories on using it to share?

Nothing amazingly innovative, but I've used it a lot at work. For simple jobs/event processing it is amazing as it removes a load of complexity (logging, monitoring, scaling, deploying).

Lambdas tend to be < 100 lines of Javascript which means maintenance and rewriting is trivial. And because the jobs are so simple people don't need to be Javascript experts or aware of the JS ecosystem to write them.

Lambda is also very cheap if you have bursty or just very low-volume workloads.

Parse is shutting down though.

While I view them as pioneers in the space, the fact that executed their cloud code functionality, and did it well is enough for the rest of us to take it from here :)

Perhaps it's even a part of the (now) open source parse-server?

I am not sure, but as I am building a similar thing I will definitely be having a closer look at their source code in the coming weeks.

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