Lucas Carlson

Programming for PaaS (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide to Coding for Platform-as-a-Service

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is gaining serious traction among web and mobile developers, but as new PaaS providers emerge and existing vendors upgrade their features, its hard to keep track of what PaaS has to offer. This thorough introduction takes you through the PaaS model from a developers point of view, and breaks down the types of services that Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Cloud Foundry, and others deliver.Whether youre an entrepreneur or part of a large enterprise development team, this book shows you how PaaS can help you focus on innovative applications, rather than spend your time worrying about technical operations.Track the clouds evolution from IaaS and DevOps to PaaSLearn how PaaS combines the simplicity of shared web hosting with the control of dedicated hostingExplore the benefits of both portable and non-portable PaaS optionsApply best practices for moving legacy apps to PaaSand understand the challenges involvedWrite new applications for PaaS from scratch with RESTful meta-servicesUse PaaS to build mobile apps with backend services that scaleExamine the core services that each major provider currently offersLearn the situations in which PaaS might not be advantageous

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449335137
• Artikelnr.: 39488899

Autorenporträt

Lucas Carlson founded AppFog, a PaaS company that leveraged Cloud Foundry and was acquired by CenturyLink. Lucas has been a professional developer for 20 years and specializes in Ruby on Rails development. Lucas has authored Programming for PaaS and the Ruby Cookbook and has written half a dozen libraries in various programming languages and contributed to many others, including Rails and RedCloth. He maintains a personal website at rufy.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: The Cloud for Developers
Chapter 2: What Is PaaS?
Chapter 3: Types of PaaS
Chapter 4: Moving Legacy Apps to PaaS
Chapter 5: Writing New Apps for PaaS
Chapter 6: Mobile Apps on PaaS
Chapter 7: A Look at Core Services
Chapter 8: Why Not PaaS?
Chapter 9: The Future of PaaS
Chapter 10: Resources
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