Author: Waqar Azeem

IaaS is a really useful and fundamental part of cloud computing, but that is not the only choice. It’s also possible to build and run applications using an approach called PaaS, Platform as a Service. In this technology, applications are still running in VMs, but the developer who writes those applications doesn’t see the VMs. Instead, they are running the application on a set of supporting services. Those services can vary quite a bit, but across all PaaS technologies for compute, this service makes it easier and faster to build and run applications on cloud platforms. It also can make…

The rise of cloud computing is among the most important trends of the time. If you work in technology, whatever your role is cloud computing most probably has affected you. You might be writing code that runs in a cloud platform, like Amazon Web Services or Azure, or maybe your company is building a private cloud infrastructure that you will manage. Whoever you are most probably you have used cloud applications in some way.  Let us have a look at the world without cloud computing. It has users and an on-premises data center, giving the company it’s own compute, storage,…