Platform As a Service
topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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5 statements about Platform As a Service, every show
O'Laughlin: Middleware and PaaS Layers Usually Get Squeezed Out and Die
“It always just ends up being in the middle, so it just gets eaten by one or the other. I think of that like middleware layer, unless if it's a really, really, really compelling case, Often dies”
Reimer: Leaving the cloud is a mistake for 99.9% of SaaS startups
“I think for, I guess I wouldn't say a hundred percent of us, but for 99.9% of the rest of us, like this is not a good decision. With platform as a service, you're effectively getting all of those site reliability engineers and DevOps people at your platform of…”
PaaS Customers Graduate to In-House Infrastructure Far Less Than Feared
“Whereas I think the market and the investors, and frankly, even the teams were very worried about this graduation phenomenon, it's happening way less than anyone feared. And it's really just very specific cases where people go narrower, not broader.”
Indian startups are expanding into PaaS, but infrastructure still lags
“Where India has largely been successful is at the top level, which is building those applications with SaaS layers and all those things.
So what has changed in the last few years is even in the past, it was predominantly SaaS. Now we start seeing a lot of com…”
Deeter: Serverless computing and FaaS will rival SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
“We're adding a fourth bucket today, which is for the first time, and I suspect many of you in the room, ah, can't even guess what the acronym stands for. Ah, the hardcore technical folks I bet do immediately. It's Function as a Service. There's the emergence o…”