Once upon a time, software as a service was the only as a service acronym floating around. As the industry flourished though, forks came off of it into relating spaces to create a whole slew of aaS companies in numerous technological categories.
One of those forks is PaaS.
What Is a PaaS?
PaaS stands for platform as a service. It’s a service that provides and maintains a platform for developing, testing, and deploying applications for developers. All of the back-end infrastructure is managed by the PaaS, so that the developers can focus on their projects.
PaaS providers are able to reduce the amount of coding you need to do by providing you with middleware to use directly on the platform, with no dependencies on operating system compatibility (aw, yis).
A PaaS makes sense to use when you have multiple developers working on the same project. Like any other team-based SaaS app, PaaS apps allow you to add multiple users in a web-based development environment to co-work remotely on the same project.
What Does a PaaS Include?
Similar to more infrastructure-focused service providers like Nexcess, PaaS providers include the basic infrastructure required to deploy apps, such as servers, networking, storage, and reference architectures.
However, PaaS is arguably a more complete solution for app developers, providing an environment which allows you to build, collaborate, test, deploy, and manage your applications, all in one place.
What Are Some Examples of PaaS?
You may not be familiar with the term PaaS, but if you’re a developer, you may already be using one:
- Beanstalk
- Heroku
- Microsoft Azure
Take It From Us – Always Go With a Specialist
Platform as a service companies do one thing: save app developers time and money by bundling and automating a bunch of the things they’re used to doing manually. Then, when you run into problems, there’s a team of experts just behind the curtain to help you out.
PaaS companies are to app developers what Nexcess is to ecommerce site developers – an all-in-one solution with a team of experts who specialize in your field. You don’t need tier one support at this stage in the game, you need someone who’s at least as informed as you are to help solve these problems.
Check out the PaaS providers above to help build your next application, and when it’s time to launch, talk to Nexcess about managing your ecommerce site.
