Facebook’s Parse Launches SDK for Internet of Things

At the F8 developer conference last week, Facebook announced Parse for IoT , a Backend as a Service (BaaS) for microcontrollers and realtime operating systems (RTOS). Facebook acquired Parse in 2013 to add Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) capabilities to its platform. Popular among developers building consumer and social apps, Parse offers user management, data storage, background jobs, custom code, push notifications and analytics. Developers consume the REST API or use native SDKs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. With the latest announcement, Parse has shipped SDK for Arduino Yún, Raspberry Pi and Texas Instruments CC3200 devices.