Title
The Building Blocks of a PaaS
Abstract
Traditional cloud computing providers enable developers to program and deploy applications in the cloud by using platform as a service (PaaS) providers. Despite the benefits of such an approach, this service model usually comes with a high level of the lock in effect into the service provider. The lock in effect occurs when a software developer needs to change its cloud provider. When this happens, it usually means a major application rewrite, specific for the new PaaS. This paper details the initial results of a project whose goal is to build a PaaS where vendor lock in does not occur. With this PaaS, developers wishing to deploy their applications into the cloud may continue to program using their usual development environments. There are no necessary changes required to make the application PaaS compatible. As a proof of concept, we developed an open source PaaS management application as a regular web application and then deployed it on the cloud.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s10922-012-9260-2
J. Network Syst. Manage.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Platform as a service,Cloud computing,Performance testing
Platform as a service,Computer science,Computer security,Service provider,Vendor lock-in,Proof of concept,Software,Service model,Web application,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
1
1064-7570
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudio Teixeira1194.71
Joaquim Sousa Pinto23314.62
Ricardo Azevedo320.38
Tiago Batista4112.10
André Monteiro542.19