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Facebook Open Graph allows web apps to bring social context and discovery to apps. But its dependency on web backends creates a significant “missing link” that prevents the vast and increasing amounts of user activity happening via native mobile apps on Open Graph. Kinvey fills that mobile app gap by making it possible for your native app to work instantly with Facebook Open Graph.

Do you ever worry about how painful it is for users to create unique usernames and remember passwords just for your app? Strong passwords are almost impossible to remember, shared passwords create a huge vulnerability, and weak passwords are of no good use. Plus, many users are turned off by the effort it takes to provide basic profile information for an app.

Last week, our own Annie Bourne provided an update on how the Backend As a Service ecosystem has been moving along in the past few months: convergence is the name of the game as the the world moves to the new reality of ubiquitous mobility with the desire to merge disparate information sources into an instantly accessible and highly context driven user experience.

In this post, we look at how Kinvey brings the BaaS ecosystem together today from an architecture standpoint:

Hi folks, my name is Sandeep and today is my second day as a Software Engineer at Kinvey. Let’s start by taking a peek into the future. Circa 2050. A full ten billion people on the planet connected to each other through devices of various shapes and sizes. The Internet of 2010 has moved along to connect not only the desktop on every desk or the smartphone in every pocket but a hyper-connected world that makes computing pervasive by embedding intelligence in every device, creates vast amounts of contextual ability, and blurs the lines between devices.