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Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang
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Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang

by Jyotiswarup Raiturkar
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

The Platform as a Service (PaaS) model is a higher-level offering than Iaas, where the cloud provider offers managed services for building blocks like databases, caches, and so on. This allows application developers to focus on business use cases without getting bogged down in infrastructure management. Compared to IaaS, the PaaS components are higher up in the software stack.

The advantage of PaaS should be immediately obvious. The software team can immediately get started with their development, spinning up utilitarian services as needed. Providers manage everything else, such as software versions, security, operating systems, and backups. Most of the services are very elastic and can be scaled vertically (for ...

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