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Subject: Re: backends - parse/backendless/roll your own
From: Jerry Hamby <jerryhamby@vdex.com>
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:35:07 -0700
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I use Apigee UserGrid, also known as App Services. I love it and I won't =
go back.=20
http://apigee.com/docs/app_services

I use to do Coldfusion CFCs and MySQL before I discovered the power and =
flexibility NoSQL type databases and REST statements.=20
All the open APIs use REST, so this works very well except for one =
factor, I can't find a way to do REST "PUT" and DELETE" statements in =
Actionscript.
My solution was to set up an Amazon EC2 account, run Node.js (Apigee has =
a Node SDK) and establish a socket. So I couldn't completely get away
from a backend server I did force myself into Javascript. At least my =
costs are very low and I can build apps using web, desktop or mobile =
constructing all
my business logic inside the client.

I also setup a Amazon S3 account and found some Actionscript code to =
upload my images while storing my image database records on Apigee.
Apigee also has file storage but they didn't add that feature until =
after I had got the S3 stuff working.

I got a free year from Amazon and Apigee is free up to some ridiculous =
amount of calls per month, I think 3 million.
I haven't tried Parse or backendless yet. Again the downside to any of =
these services is the same, Flash doesn't have a native way
to handle REST "PUT" and DELETE" statements. If anyone can show my how =
to get around this issue in Actionscript I would appreciate it.

Maybe finding a solution for this REST gap in Actionscript would be a =
great project for the Apache Flex community.  =20

Jerry


On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Stephen C wrote:

> I am curious to get the groups feelings on these cloud backends with =
air
> projects. Like parse and backendless, i have played with these, and i =
am
> toying with the idea of moving to one so i do not have to maintain my
> php/mysql backend and let someone else deal with it.
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> I would also be interested in others.
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> Thank You,
> Stephen C