PaaS (Platform as a service)
1. PaaS (Platform as a service)
Platform as a Service, or PaaS, is a computing model that offers a cloud-based platform for developing, running, and managing applications. PaaS provides a framework for developers that they can build upon and use to create customized applications. PaaS is appealing because it gives developers a platform to develop, run, and manage their own apps without having to build and maintain the associated infrastructure. They can also use built-in software components to build their applications, which reduces the amount of code they have to write. Cloud Run and BigQuery are examples of Google Cloud PaaS products. Cloud Run is a fully managed, serverless platform for developing and hosting applications at scale, taking care of provisioning servers and scaling app instances based on demand. BigQuery is a fully managed enterprise data warehouse that manages and analyzes data and can be queried to answer big data questions with zero infrastructure management. So, what are the benefits of PaaS? It reduces development time. Developers can go straight to coding instead of spending time setting up and maintaining a development environment, which leads to faster time to market. It’s scalable. With PaaS, organizations can purchase additional capacity for building, testing, staging, and running applications whenever they need it. It also allows applications to be designed to take advantage of the inherent scalability of cloud infrastructure. It reduces management. By abstracting the management of underlying resources even further than IaaS, PaaS offloads infrastructure management, patches, updates, and other administrative tasks to the cloud service provider. This provides a cost-effective way to focus on new functionality. It’s flexible. With support for different programming languages and easy collaboration for distributed teams, PaaS gives developers the flexibility to deliver various projects—from prototypes to enterprise solutions—on the same platform. So, what scenarios would PaaS be good for? PaaS is suitable for organizations that want to create unique and custom applications without investing heavily in owning and managing infrastructure; want to rapidly test and deploy applications; have many legacy applications and want to reduce operational costs; have a new app project they want to deploy quickly and grow or update rapidly; want to pay only for resources while they’re being used; and want to offload time-consuming tasks such as setting up and maintaining application servers and development and testing environments.2. Let's practice!
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