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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.

10 October 2024

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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.

Beyond buzzwords: A brief history of microservices patterns