Cloud computing is the need of the hour. With data storage and computing power, it serves the purpose of the developers. But the best part is that the users do not have to manage the working of it directly. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a type of cloud computing service that gives its consumers a platform to develop, manage, and run Web Applications. You will not have to go through the trouble of developing, launching, and managing an application.
PaaS includes everything from the groundwork, middleware, and the outcomes. It provides the user with whatever is needed to support the entire Web application situation. It saves the consumer the trouble of doing the paperwork, they just have to manage their work and the provider manages everything else for them. They do not have to worry about the license or anything.
How Paas Works?
Have you wondered how PaaS works? The working of PaaS is very user friendly. It does not replace the organization’s entire groundwork or software development. Rather it is a cloud service, which is provided through the service providers’ network. It can be supplied either through private, public, or hybrid clouds, to deliver various types of services for the consumer.
PaaS is a boon and an essential model for the people active in the cloud-based application or cloud-based software development. Why? Because it easily allows all the works to shift from on-site resources to the cloud. It also increases flexibility while reducing the server’s need and support crew.
How useful is PaaS?
Utilizing PaaS is essential as well as necessary in certain situations. It helps in organizing workflows when multiple developers engage themselves in the same projects. But, if you include certain other features, PaaS provides flexibility and great speed to the entire process. Users use Platform as a Service mainly in these scenarios.
Development Framework
It provides guidelines and groundwork for developers on which they can develop their work.
Analytics or business intelligence:
It allows the companies to analyze and interpret their infrastructure and data while finding perceptions, patterns, and models and predicting results to improve their work and business.
Mobile Applications
We frequently use PaaS for developing mobile applications. But several other organizations use it for building cross-platform applications for its flexibility and dynamic solutions. This feature of PaaS helps in creating an application that can run on any device.
DevOps Tools
We engaged PaaS while developing DevOps tools. The cloud computing model (PaaS) provides a unique feature, application lifecycle management along with its other specific features.
Additional Services
It reduces the time for application for marketing. It automatically eliminates maintenance tasks. Besides, it reduces infrastructural management as it reduces the management of scalable infrastructure. Do you belong to an industry where the technical process is very slow? This includes especially to certain industries such as banking and manufacturing.
Do you need new programming languages and technologies, but do not have the time to learn it? Worry not then. With PaaS, these are also possible. You can use the model and introduce new channels for your technical growth. We used PaaS with a manufacturing firm and it adapted the new methods and technologies. What’s great, we did not have to change the business processes.
Why do developers use PaaS?
Along with delivering infrastructure as a major service, the cloud computing model, PaaS is advantageous to the developers in certain ways. However, the additional features of the model such as middleware, development tools, and other tools required for business are the most helpful.
Let us look at some of the advantages of PaaS.
Simple and convenient
This is the greatest PaaS has to offer. The provider will supply most of the infrastructure along with other services in informational technology (IT). The Pay on Per-use basis of PaaS allows the developers and the enterprises in eliminating the extra costs for installing hardware and software tools.
Reduces coding time
The development tools provided by the Platform as a Service (PaaS) helps in reducing the time for coding while developing the new apps. It has pre-coded applications built within the platform.
Develops app without staff
The components and services provided by Paas help the development team with new capabilities.
Development for multiple platforms
Several service providers will give you the options for development on multiple platforms. The computer, mobile devices, and browsers make cross-platform apps easier and quicker to develop.
Efficient management of application lifecycle
With the help of PaaS, you can receive all the capabilities you require for supporting the web application lifecycle. You can build, test, expand, manage and update your application within the same environment.
Example of Paas
Several famous companies supply PaaS services to enterprises for creating cloud-based applications. Google App Engine supports and provides distributed web applications though some of the best programming languages, especially Java, PHP, Go, and Python. Microsoft Azure supports the development of applications in .NET, Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, and Ruby.
I found PaaS very useful is CloudJiffy. It is an auto-scalable WordPress hosting cluster with enterprise-level availability, easy cloud setup, and management for highly-loaded projects. It supports 8 major application platforms. In CloudJiffy, all external dependencies are considered services. It allows users to create a marketplace for their products and services, through which they can provide whatever is on demand.
Cloudjiffy operates in both Indian as well as in the international market. One can find their primary locations and branches distributed equally across the globe. This helps them to provide better services to their customers as well as enable them in receiving better and quick responses for every application.
The PaaS by Cloudjiffy promoted me to continuous delivery with the support of a full application development lifecycle. It starts from the initial level of development, passes through all the testing, and ends at deployment.
The container based-architecture provided by the firm helps the running of applications in any programming languages. I could easily code in PHP, Java, Node.js, Go, Asp.net, and Docker.
All sorts of external dependencies such as messaging databases, systems, and file systems are their services. The firm allows its users in creating a marketplace of services, allowing them to provide these services on demand.
Conclusion
PaaS can be called the evolution of the idea of cloud computing. PaaS can prove to be very beneficial for people who have expansion needs but do not have the money or resources for it. It provides numerous opportunities which may not be available otherwise. It provides ways for small and developing companies to advance without spending a lot of money on infrastructure, which can be put to a better use. Using cloud computing can open up avenues for operational success and enable internal development while saving the consumer a huge amount of money.
