PaaS application development: Key factors to keep in mind

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Adam Riglian.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) has been talked up as a must-have for enterprise development teams, but experts and vendors say actual adoption of PaaS technology hasn’t kept up with the hype. Ask any PaaS vendor about adoption, and you’re likely to get a response along the lines of "we’re still explaining what it is and how it works." Analysts from Gartner Inc. and elsewhere have suggested that PaaS adoption rates will grow, but the researchers also say many major vendors won’t have fully formed platforms before the end of this year.

Currently, vendors are focused on "talking to customers and explaining how PaaS can fit their needs and how they can really take advantage of PaaS," said Krishnan Subramanian, principal analyst with Rishidot Research LLC…

Making life easier
PaaS technology has been positioned as a way to eliminate all the hassles of development, allowing developers to build and deploy applications without having to worry about anything else. For Jérémy Hérault, a France-based Java developer and an early adopter of PaaS, those ideas became realities. "[Developers] are just developing; we are doing our real job. [There is] no installation or tuning of database, application server, et cetera," said Hérault, a self-described technophile who enjoys dabbling with new technologies. "We select which kind of environment we would like to have and then we go for coding. It’s 100% of the time on development."…

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