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Last month was SashiDo's first exhibition at a conference - we attended Webit Festival Europe's Founders Games. We were very proud to be one of the 100 selected startups among 2400+ to exhibit and pitch in front of well-known experts and investors during Europe's premier digital and tech festival. Our mission was to spread the word about Parse Server and Open MBaaS but we knew it would be hard to explain what our service is about to a diverse audience cons ...

What is MBaaS? In case you are not familiar with MBaaS (mobile backend as a service) and have never used it before, but you are interested in finding a way to develop apps faster, easier and invest less during the process, you will definitely find useful information in this article. The concept behind MBaaS is a very simple one - abstract away almost the entire process, allowing a mobile developer to build the next great mobile app without the help of othe ...

When considering where to host an application, no size fits all needs. To determine the best location, you have to consider many factors and cases but one of the most important criterion you must satisfy is the physical proximity of your target market. In today's crowded marketplace, the good user experience is a game changer, and apps with perfect user experience are rewarded with happy and loyal users. The most common reason for users to complain and aba ...

Last week we asked you to guess the new feature we've been working on lately. The correct answer is: we are launching two new regions - Australia and Asia - by the end of the month. Today's demanding clients do feel the difference of speed regarding app usability. An improvement in the loading time is a pretty good reason for more positive reviews on the app stores, and let's be honest, the positive reviews are the currency of the app development market. W ...

Easter is around the corner, and we decided to create a little Easter hunt for our customers. We will give one of you the chance to win a $15 credit for SashiDo :) All you need to do is guess what’s the new feature we’ve been working on lately. We promise it’s really hot! The winner will be drawn from those who have correctly named the new feature in our comment section below, so don’t forget to check it regularly for updates. HINT: It is something that wi ...

Imagine if there was a way to set up SSL on your website in just one click. How cool would that be? Well with SashiDo and Let's Encrypt now you can easily achieve it! Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit, and it is a one click option for your web app hosted on SashiDo. They let people and organizations around the world obtain, renew, and manage SSL/TLS certificates. Their certificates can be ...

Having a Backup is a matter of great importance. Just recently GitLab reminded us that mistakes do happen sometimes. We, as a service, couldn't afford to lose any clients data, so we have always had internal disaster recovery backups of all the data on our servers, but we felt that this wasn't enough. We wanted to give our clients the ability to be in control of their database backups and also the ability to quickly restore them if necessary. This is the r ...

After announcing the official shutdown of the hosted Parse service, an open source version was released. It can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run NodeJS, works with the Express web application framework and can be added to existing web applications, or run by itself. Parse Server is the best open source option to explore for those who search for alternative for the Hosted MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service). It has the potential to be one of t ...

Choosing your Parse Server provider could be important decision, if you’ve decided to go with a third party solution. A lot of new companies and providers came on the market during the last year, which is awesome, because you have more options to choose from. This also creates competition which pushes providers to improve the quality of the service and to give better terms in order to gain more customers. On the other hand you may feel confused - everybody ...

Time flies fast. It’s been 10 months since Parse announced the future retirement of their hosted service. Many of you still feel uncertain about starting the migration process. We do understand your reasons - you need more time to see how the situation is going to develop, which new path to choose - self hosted backend or third party provider, you still wonder how stable are the fresh Parse Server providers. The actual migration also may scare you - you’ve ...