Stripe and Parse partner up to expand realm of mobile payments

Y Combinator startups Stripe and Parse form a partnership to make it easy for developers to integrate payments into their mobile apps.

Firebase’s scalable backend makes it ’10 times easier’ to build apps

Firebase's cofounder James Tamplin (pictured, left) wants to make the process of developing an app "ten times easier," so he built a product that will do the hard work for you.

Twitter’s record-breaking night killed the Fail Whale, no thanks to Ruby

No obsessed-but-thwarted Captain Ahab, Twitter finally put the Fail Whale in its watery grave with this set of infrastructure tweaks.

Insta-cloud: CloudMine makes big data super-simple for apps and enterprise

Big data often means big complexity. But CloudMine, the backend-as-a-service infrastructure for apps, just launched this weekend to take the pain out of data management for app developers.

CloudMine started out as a business-to-business big data service, but quickly pivoted …

Cloud on fire: The burn rate on Tumblr’s big backend is building fast

Tumblr has been spending several million dollars per month on web hosting, sources tell VentureBeat.

“You wouldn’t believe the amount they are spending just to keep the site up and running,” said a source familiar with Tumblr’s expenses. “It’s crazy …

Mobile backend startup Kinvey nabs $2M to make building apps easier

Kinvey, a startup that helps mobile developers streamline the process of building apps, has raised $2 million in seed money.

Kinvey has built an out-of-the-box backend that can make building and shipping mobile applications a lot simpler and faster. Basically, …