IDC expects the number of industry specific Platform-as-a-Service ( PaaS) offerings to explode over the next year or so. Tailored PaaS offerings mean that in industries with very specific needs, such as the finance industry or healthcare, companies can still outsource to the cloud. They will be able to have specific IT needs met and not have to pay top dollar for a custom solution. "Examples of emerging industry PaaS include: NYSE Capital Markets Community Platform in financial …
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Should you use PaaS for your next project? Often the answer is no because you want control, but here's an example from SongPop showing why the promise of PaaS is not passé. SongPop was able to autoscale to 60 million users, 1 million daily active users, deliver 17 terabytes/day of songs and images worldwide, handle 10k+ queries/second, all with a 6 person engineering team, and only one engineer working full-time on the backend.
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…service running smoothly, Getaroom moved from a Platform-as-a-Service ( PaaS) provider to more than 100 Amazon EC2 servers, providing the scalability to manage surges in demand during peak periods with minimal expense.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time:
34TB : storage for GitHub search ; 2,880,000,000: log lines per day
Quotable Quotes:
@ peakscale : The " IKEA effec t" << Contributes to NIH and why ppl still like IaaS over PaaS. :-\
@ sheeshee : module named kafka.. creates weird & random processes, sends data from here to there & after 3 minutes noone knows what's happening anymore?
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…still is) fun to write applications with, but deployment was not very pleasant (unsurprisingly, the PaaS market has blossomed since then!). This drove me to JRuby, for which warbler eased the pain enormously.
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…the dominant language for systems work in IaaS, Orchestration, and PaaS in 24 months. # golang
— Derek Collison (@ derekcollison) September 11, 2012
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As a growing number of companies embrace cloud computing, more and more analyst reports make predictions about the future of the Platform as a Service ( PaaS) market. According to these reports, PaaS is:
The fastest-growing cloud category
Expected to have a value of $1.7B in 2015
But setting aside predictions about the future of PaaS, what is the state of the current PaaS market? We at Engine Yard were curious about where things stand with PaaS as it exists today, so we decided …
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…runs a process on your server(s), sending metrics to Pusher's realtime PaaS every second or so. Pusher publishes those metrics in realtime through websockets to any browser that's connected and authenticated for your metrics.
So the essence of realtime:
Scout-managed process on your server
HTTP posts from your server to Pusher
Websocket connections between Pusher and browser(s)
In Code
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…, a Heroku-style auto-scaling 'Platform as a Service' ( PaaS) for webapps. It includes Ruby support and along with the JRuby news shows a growing interest in the language at the popular open source company.
The JRuby team has also announced the release of JRuby 1.7 preview 1 this week.
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