> I know this sounds hard, but it really isn’t that difficult to use Ruby on Rails or NodeJS to produce a simple API to power your mobile apps.<p>This trivializes all the hard work that goes into making a backend scalable, secure and reliable in an acceptable timeframe. You could also argue that using your own hardware instead of someone else's (cloud) "isn't really that difficult". It's just a few servers, right?<p>If you feel "betrayed" because of Parse's shutdown, then you didn't analyze your risks properly. Suppliers and providers come and go in every industry, and IT is no exception. Using someone else's things is just a tradeoff and a business decision.