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dcanh121
dcanh121

Reputation: 4695

Kinvey server setup

Kinvey is Backend as a Service | Mobile Cloud Backend as a Service

Is Kinvey ( http://www.kinvey.com/ ) good, or using custom Java server with database a good idea ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 363

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mjsalinger
mjsalinger

Reputation: 660

I am a member of the Kinvey engineering team, and can talk a bit about BaaS in general. While creating your own backend gives you a lot of flexibility and control, it is also a lot of work.

Back-end as a service providers like Kinvey offer a platform to speed up app development and have already done a lot of the work for you. Tasks like managing a database server and a web service front-end, managing the storage and streaming of files, providing a cross-platform push notification, providing a centralized user and authentication store, integration with social networks, buisiness logic and more are easily implemented with SDKs for each platform.

If I were to list the three main advantages of BaaS, they are:

  • Ease of implementation
  • Ready-made back-end platform for cross-platform apps
  • Automatic scalability if your app becomes successful

As far as disadvantages, your backend feature set becomes dependent on the vendor, and you certainly get more flexibility with a custom solution, but that can often be overcome with business logic. In my own (admittedly biased) opinion, the flexibility and cost savings make it worth at least giving BaaS a try seeing if the feature sets meet your specific needs.

Upvotes: 1

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