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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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Microsoft Azure VMs IaaS or PaaS?

I would like some clarification on whether Azure VM's are strictly IaaS or can be PaaS depending on the amount responsibilities the creator/user has. I've seen multiple different website saying VM are ONLY IaaS since you require an operating…
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Is there a Paas solution that avoids NSA prism spying?

I want to deploy my application and looking at Appharbor or Amazon beanstalk for my .net project. I'm concerned about security and was put off by Microsoft (and therefore Azure) being a key player in the Prism scandal. Being in Europe I've started…
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Heroku vs DotCloud vs Duostack vs other cloud/PaaS providers (Rails and non-Rails)?

We have a very simple function (We look something up from a third party database and return an answer. It's literally five lines of code.) We would like to offload this task from our main server because we expect a high volume of traffic for this…
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Why should a 12 Factor app be self contained?

In the 12 Factor article on Port Binding http://12factor.net/port-binding there is a requirement that every app be self-contained and not have a runtime injected e.g. Tomcat. For what reason is this advised... what are advantages of self-contained…
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UML Deployment Diagram for IaaS and PaaS Cloud Systems

I would like to model the following situation using a UML deployment diagram. A small command and control machine instance is spawned on an Infrastructure as a Service cloud platform such as Amazon EC2. This instance is in turn responsible for…
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Appfog mysql tunnel error - Encryption not available on this event-machine

We've established a connection to appfog using caldecott and af tunnel command. We try to connect to a mysql service to load and execute a big .sql file to populate the db. We tried it from 3 different machines Ubuntu on VirtualBox, Feora 18 on…
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After which type of Exceptions/Crashes does an Azure Cloud instance perform restarts?

As far as I remember, a role instance should automatically perform a restart after a crash/failure. In order to test that behaviour, I wrote an application that enforces an out-of-memory-exception and my application crashed. The role instance didn't…
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How to set up multiple "environments" with CloudBees?

I just read all the CloudBees developer docs and was surprised I didn't see anything about setting up multiple environments for your deployment pipeline. I plan on running my app locally, then promote the code to a QA machine inside my network, and…
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blue green deployment on heroku or another cloud platform as a service

We're currently running a Ruby on Rails project (RefineryCMS) on Heroku with two dynos. Every time we update the site we experience downtime for about 1 to 2 minutes. Management are not happy about this. What we'd really like is some sort of…
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cloudfoundry: how to use filesystem

I am planning to use cloudfoundry paas service (from VMWare) for hosting my node.js application. I have seen that it has support for mongo and redis in the service layer and node.js framework. So far so good. Now I need to store my mediafiles(images…
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What is exactly a platform as a service?

My question is what exactly is platform as a service, and if my concepts of IaaS and SaaS are really correct. IaaS: When you can specify your needs at machine level you're consuming IaaS, it means that when you're able to decide if your application,…
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Hosting node.js

Is there any PAAS provider where a small, productive, non-profit node.js application can be hosted for up to 10Euro/month. no.de: for development only, no predictions about availability heroku: when quotas are not enough, it gets bloody expensive
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Sitecore 9 PaaS architecture: provisioning content delivery

I'm in charge of provisioning a new Sitecore system on Azure as PaaS. I want to provision 3 environments in as many different regions. Still I want to have a main region which will provision a full XP installation, while the other 2 regions (slave)…
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PouchDb on PAAS (Heroku, Bluemix, etc)

I've gotten some great feedback from Stackoverflow and wanted to check on one more idea. Currently I've got a webapp that runs nodejs on a PAAS (Heroku and trying out bluemix). The server is being configured to talk to a Couchdb (hosted on…
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SOA cloud in PaaS possible?

I'm currently at the drawing board of a new service cloud we're building with a service oriented architecture. The idea is like this: A cloud of, say 10, services. 3 completely different layers of business logic (BL) that freely can mix and match…
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