Open source backend as a service Appwrite gets $10M seed funding to commercialize traction

Appwrite, an open source platform that offers a slew of features to developers, aims to capitalize on its grass-roots popularity
Does the world really need another “something as a Service” acronym? And how is Backend as a Service different than, say, Database as a service or Platform as a Service? As the Appwrite story goes to show, Backend as a Service (BaaS) is a thing.
Appwrite is a self-hosted open source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform for web, mobile and flutter developers that offers a set of integrated REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.
It has been a hit with developers, and today the company is announcing $10 million in seed funding. ZDNet connected with CEO and Founder Eldad Fux to discuss the BaaS category, Appwrite’s features, growth and future plans, as well as funding specifics.
The closest we could come to a definition for BaaS is “a cloud service model in which developers outsource all the behind-the-scenes aspects of a web or mobile application so that they only have to write and maintain the frontend”.