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Platform as a service
Develop and manage applications without creating your own infrastructure
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud service model that enables you to focus on developing and managing applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. In addition to storage and other computing resources, a service provider also typically offers you access to a suite of prebuilt tools to develop, customize, and test your applications.
18 June 2025
Article
IBM's approach to open technology
Learn about our approach to open source, including where we focus our contributions in projects and communities, how we push innovation upstream, and what you should consider when embracing open source in your enterprise.
10 October 2024
Article
Beyond buzzwords: A brief history of microservices patterns
Microservices are definitely the hot new thing in commercial application development. The term microservice has replaced Agile, DevOps, and RESTful as the hot new buzzword that all resumes and conference talks have to feature. But microservices are more than just a buzzword or a passing fad. In fact, they are the evolution of all of these previous concepts and an approach that has begun to show the promise of cutting through a number of long-standing issues in application development.
14 May 2024
Article
Build an application using microservices and CQRS
Learn how to develop microservices using Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) discover the main benefits of this type of pattern.
27 January 2023
Tutorial
Serve models on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate
Deploy a stand-alone Watson NLP runtime to Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate
26 May 2022
Tutorial
Implement hybrid DNS using Red Hat OpenShift on multicloud platforms
Learn how to reuse on-premises DNS records with a Red Hat OpenShift managed service.
09 June 2020
Article
Discover best-practice VPC configuration for application deployment
Deploy complex multi-tier applications quickly and simply with IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud combined with Terraform and Red Hat Ansible.
14 May 2018
Tutorial
Create and deploy a blockchain chat application on the IBM Cloud using Tendermint and Lotionjs
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to easily deploy Proof of Stake blockchain applications to an IBM Container as two validator nodes using Tendermint and LotionJs.
11 July 2016
Article
Cloud orchestration technologies: Explore your options
This article provides an excellent starting point for understanding essential cloud orchestration concepts, and compares and contrasts the various orchestration mechanisms at a high level.
23 June 2016
Article
The evolving hybrid integration reference architecture
This article considers the primary drivers of change and the integration reference architecture that is evolving to meet the new demands.
08 August 2011
Article
Cloud metering and billing
Learn some of the metering and billing options that both established and up-and-coming technologies offer in the cloud.