Composable PaaS vs. Modular Cloud Services

July 16, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from Jaxenter. Author: Mike Soby.

Recently, James Urquhart brought up a fascinating debate about contextual versus composable PaaS, which has created an equally interesting, broader debate for application deployment in general. Contextual PaaS provides an integrated deployment framework with no ability to add custom components and requires applications to be written to that platform. Composable PaaS on the other hand allows for greater flexibility, as components can be plugged in to support diverse applications.

While we believe composable PaaS delivers value and caters to a wide variety of applications, cloud services provide almost infinite flexibility for application development, which begs the question: are composable PaaS or modular cloud services a better way to develop applications?…

Looking at the cloud market, is there a company today that is experiencing broad success in providing solutions to developers and if so, how are they succeeding? I’ll submit here that AWS is absolutely that market leader and when one drills into that success, we find that a strong contributing factor to their adoption success is indeed their modular approach to delivering services…

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