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paas is short for Platform-as-a-service, a category of cloud-centric services.

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage Web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure

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What is SaaS, PaaS and IaaS? With examples

What do the following terms mean? SaaS PaaS IaaS? There are various cloud services available today, such as Amazon's EC2 and AWS, Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure and many others. Which category does each belong to and why?
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What is the difference between Cloud Foundry and Docker?

I am a Java developer. We use Weblogic to host our applications. I have been told to look into replacing weblogic with an opensource alternative. We are planning use with SpringBoot. We are also looking at Docker/Cloud Foundry. However Docker/Cloud…
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Cloud Foundry explained

So I've been reading up on Cloud Foundry and yet I'm still confused as to what it is. Here is my take anyway on PaaS on CF, and hopefully you guys could tell me if I'm wrong and explain it a bit better. A traditional PaaS offering like Microsoft…
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Single Sign-On in Microservice Architecture

I'm trying to design a green-field project that will have several services (serving data) and web-applications (serving HTML). I've read about microservices and they look like good fit. The problem I still have is how to implement SSO. I want the…
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What are the best practice for domain names (dev, staging, production)?

With the rise of containers, Kuberenetes, 12 Factor etc, it has become easier to replicate an identical environment across dev, staging and production. However, what there appears to be no common standard to domain name conventions. As far as I can…
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Is there an equivalent to Heroku for the ASP.NET platform?

I can't see a reason why we couldn't do the same thing Heroku does for an ASP.NET website. Anyone care to object?
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Looking for PaaS providers recommendations

I want to develop our new project using a PaaS provider. I'll be developing primary in PHP, but would like that the service can provide other languages too (and add-ons available too, like MongoDB, Memcached, redis, etc). I've seem some PaaS as…
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Google App Engine vs Heroku

I am starting a web app and it would be the first time I use cloud services (PAAS). I am building an IOT platform that intends to display live data coming from bluetooth and using python. I am considering both google app engine and heroku as paas…
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Azure vs Appharbor vs Amazon EC2

I am starting developing new online business and I am not sure what technology to use for hosting. I have used Microsoft Azure in my pervious projects, I did not have any problem with it, it was just expensive. My choices are Azure, Appharbor or…
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Cross platform interface for virtualenv

I have developed my entire project (Django, Python) on Windows and all the PaaS out there use Linux. VirtualEnv on Linux: VirtualEnv_dir / bin/ activate, activate_this.py include / lib / …
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PaaS (Platform as a service) for PHP

I have walked a long road, finding out all possible 'AppEngine' for PHP solutions and am still not where I would like to be. Here is what I have seen so far: pagodabox.com I love these guys. They have built the best looking admin interface I have…
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Is there a .Net Cloud Platform

What cloud providers are available for .Net apps?
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What's an openshift gear? Can it be the equivalent of a web-worker?

Openshift pricing model states that you can have 3 gears in the free tier. Other services normally explain their free tiers in number of "web workers" that you can have. What is an openshift's gear exactly then? I know that you can install a…
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Heroku vs Elastic Beanstalk with Django + Postgres

If I am planning to deploy a Django + Postgres site and I would like to do so to a PaaS, what are the major differences between what Heroku and Elastic Beanstalk will offer me? What are features that one has but the other does not? How does the…
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Azure - difference between service endpoint and private endpoint in simple terms

I am not able to understand the difference between service endpoints and private endpoints clearly. Need help preferably with an example.
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