{"id":9264,"date":"2016-06-17T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobisoftinfotech.com\/resources\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:29:32","slug":"parse-to-heroku-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobisoftinfotech.com\/resources\/media\/parse-to-heroku-case-study","title":{"rendered":"Parse To Heroku Migration (Case Study: FocusToGo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

About FocusToGo<\/h3>\n

FocusToGo is a food-tech company from Houston, Texas. It aims to empower small shop owners to bring their To-Go food services online. It gives the owners better visibility in the incoming orders, limit the wait times for customers, and enables them to compete with drive-throughs without compromising their unique offerings. The platform enables the users to order food online in advance and collect it after sometime so that they don\u2019t have to wait in the queue while the order is being fulfilled.<\/p>\n

The Challenge<\/h3>\n

Like many startups across the world, developers at FocusToGo recognised the convenience provided by Parse hosting<\/b> platform to build a solution at minimal cost and very little server side overhead. However, the announcement from Parse to shut its operation was a shock to them as well.<\/p>\n

Even though Parse had given the path for Parse migration<\/b>, it was quite a tough task to evaluate the different options, build infrastructure in cloud and migrate to it. The team needed to build an infrastructure with minimum cost, which would be secure and scalable.<\/p>\n

In addition to these terms, FocusToGo also wanted to minimize the expenditure while moving to the new platform. They didn\u2019t want to build in-house server side team immediately and would ideally start with a small setup in cloud which should be scaled organically in future.<\/p>\n

The Solution<\/h3>\n

Mobisoft\u2019s cloud team evaluated various options of Parse hosting<\/b> Server. The users of the company were located only in US. One of the success criteria was that systems should be self sustaining and should not require any system administrator once the app is deployed. The Heroku + MLab combination fit the bill perfectly. As the users were in US, both these service providers made sense. MLab manages the hosted MongoDB, it has replica sets from as little as $15 per month. For a startup, it\u2019s a great cost saving measure when they are yet to enter the rapid growth phase. Within less than $50, both Heroku as well as MLab can be managed.<\/p>\n

We still used Amazon S3 for file storage as it was the cheapest and most reliable option, and used Mailgun for email.<\/p>\n

The final infrastructure of the solution involved: <\/b><\/p>\n