Platform as a Service (PaaS) is een begrip binnen de industriële digitalisering en softwaredeployment & architectuur.
Definitie
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is een cloud computing service model dat een complete development en deployment platform biedt via het internet. Het provides developers met runtime environment, development tools, database management en application hosting zonder de complexiteit van underlying infrastructure management.
Kenmerken
- Development tools: Integrated development environments, code editors, debugging tools
- Runtime environment: Application execution platform supporting multiple programming languages
- Database services: Managed database systems met backup, scaling, maintenance
- Middleware services: Message queuing, caching, integration services
- Scalability: Automatic scaling based on application demand
- Multi-tenancy: Shared platform serving multiple customers securely
- API management: Built-in API gateway en management capabilities
- DevOps integration: CD pipeline support
- Monitoring tools: Application performance monitoring en logging services
Toepassing
Enterprise application development:
- Web applications: Business applications met database connectivity
- MES development: Production management system creation
- CRM platforms: Customer management application development
- ERP modules: Business process application development
API development:
- RESTful APIs: Service development voor system integration
- Microservices: Distributed application architecture development
- Data APIs: Database access layers voor business applications
- Integration platforms: Middleware development voor system connectivity
Analytics platforms:
- BI applications: Dashboard en reporting platform development
- Data processing: ETL pipeline development en execution
- Machine learning: ML model development en deployment
- Real-time analytics: Stream processing application development
Mobile applications:
- Industrial apps: Mobile interfaces voor production systems
- Field service: Mobile applications voor maintenance en service
- Quality control: Mobile inspection en quality data collection
- Inventory management: Mobile warehouse en asset tracking applications
IoT platforms:
- IIoT applications: Sensor data collection en processing
- Device management: IoT device provisioning en monitoring platforms
- Edge computing: Hybrid cloud-edge application development
- Real-time monitoring: Production monitoring en alerting applications
Gerelateerde begrippen
Verwante termen:
- Infrastructure as a Service - Lower-level cloud service supporting PaaS platforms
- Software as a Service - Higher-level cloud service consuming PaaS capabilities
- Cloud native - Application architecture optimized voor PaaS deployment
- Industrial PaaS - Industry-specific PaaS implementations
Verwante concepten:
- Microservices - Application architecture pattern supported by PaaS
- CD - Development methodology enabled by PaaS platforms
- Container technology - Deployment technology underlying many PaaS platforms
- Serverless - Execution model complementing PaaS offerings
Bronnen
- Microsoft Azure App Service - Enterprise PaaS platform voor web applications
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Amazon’s application deployment en management platform
- Google App Engine - Google’s serverless application platform
- Red Hat OpenShift - Enterprise Kubernetes application platform
- Heroku - Developer-friendly application hosting platform
- IBM Cloud Foundry - Enterprise application development platform
- Oracle Application Container Cloud - Enterprise Java application platform
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