PaaS benefits go beyond just freeing up developers’ time
July 16, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Adrian Riglian.
Platform as a Service has been pitched to development teams as a way to handle the operations work so that developers can focus on simply writing code. As Jérémy Hérault, a France-based Java developer, has put it: With PaaS, developers can spend "100% of the time on development." But that’s really just one aspect of a PaaS system.
Different platforms are designed for different things, and while all PaaS providers share the same underlying principles, not all excel at the same tasks. Vendors often focus on different aspects of the application lifecycle — some on continuous integration and delivery and rapid deployments; others on managing apps once they are deployed…
Paul Burns, president of the analysis firm Neovise LLC, believes that PaaS has been used as too much of a catch-all. But he sees an increasing focus on moving existing applications to the cloud with a PaaS system. "You take an existing application and you make it run in a cloud environment and take advantage of some of the underlying capabilities like elasticity," he said…
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