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Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One

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Global variables everywhere. No tests or test coverage.

Website for product says: More than 50,000 enterprises and startups use Cloudboost. Including: Sony, Bank of America, Adobe, Hersey, and Coca-Cola.

I'm just not sure the authors of this library are being forthright about it's market and capabilities.

> More than 50,000 enterprises and startups use Cloudboost...

This is an example of why tech companies in emerging markets have to battle against prejudice. People have seen just too much of this kind of dishonesty and assume the worst. Thank you CloudBoost for making the world a worse place.

Well, looks like they are now at only more than 5,000 instead of 50k, but kept the corporate logos.

And the "kamrindanielle" that is posting here seems to be affiliated with CloudBoost whilst using "they" instead of "we". So they sure keep an eye on the threads here.

I love the part that consists of ~20-30 nested 3-liner if statements with various depth.

Edit: to make things worse, there's a 500-char long line in the same file, with minimal comments except for todo's.

> CloudBoost runs on MongoDB and Redis. You're responsible for managing the uptime, replication, sharding, backups of your data in each of these databases.

Yeah, no thanks. I'd much rather use Firebase/Algolia because a large part of their value proposition is that you don't have to worry about the hard things like replication, sharding, and backups.

They have a managed service at CloudBoost.io

Oh, please, drop the "They". We all know what you are:

https://angel.co/kamrin-danielle

I hate to shit on projects, but there's 0 way this is production ready.

Marak mentioned the lack of tests. Logging is inconsistent - half is console.log, half is winston, and none of it is exposed to the user. No monitoring. No secret management. This was not designed to scale.

I can't even find the SDKs they were advertising.

Are there some github repos you can recommend that follow these practices (for learning from them).

I'm not familiar, but off the top of my head GhostJS seems to do good work. Ignition is their logging service.

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ignition

Most of this stuff is just from experience and knowing what you need in a production application. Can you get away with no logging/monitoring? Sure, but I'd hate to be the guy trying to debug an error. Similarly, rotating keys sucks and you never want to explain to an auditor why sensitive info isn't encrypted.

It is super exciting to see projects like this! Is there anything similar that uses Postgres, or any other database that has a better reputation for data integrity than Mongo?

I'm confused to see this marketed as serverless- it seems very much server-full. Is there an easy-to-follow guide for setting up cloudboost on Azure or AWS?

Agreed... super odd to see "serverless" and "Deploy with Docker"

This is a repeat spammer, and has been previously dead/hide before, along with a ton of accounts.

Their domain is also blocked on reddit for repeated spam and shilling. They also spam the shit out of quora and others. The founder's reddit account is banned for excess spam.

They repeatedly lie about their customers, they lie about their technologies, and more. There was quite a bit of backpedaling last time when they were advertising 50k customers, slack written in cloudboost, and sony and BoA being clients.

I guess they just lost 45k clients from last time they spammed.

The codebase is trash, there are hardcoded credentials all over, this is not the first time this has been posted this week.

Do not trust.

What's the angle though? Are they trying to fleece backers? A patreon / gofundme / kickstarter?

Stop creating new conventions and just use GraphQL. Your API is already old/dated before it even started.

Do you know of any good sources to learn GraphQL?

Yes: https://www.graph.cool/docs/tutorials/

And the benefit of this, over Kubernetes and my own MongoDB / Redis instances is...?

The value of hosted services goes away when they're no long managed.

They have a managed service at CloudBoost.io

Show HN is meant to promote your own work, but community guidelines are to disclose if it's yours.

I would also recommend adding CloudBoost in your HN profile.

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