There are literally thousands(probably a lot more) of software development companies out there. Now you have decided to invest in a particular software requirement, and you have decided that off-the-shelf software doesn’t fit in with your requirements. You need something custom, something tailored to your specific needs. So how do you decide which company you […]
What are microservices?
Applications are traditionally built as a monolith. This usually means that any small change to the client-side user interface or the server-side application has to be rolled out as a new version. And when you’re scaling up, the entire application has to be scaled up, even if there’s higher demand only for some aspects of […]
SaaS: Making cloud available for all
While cloud computing models like IaaS or PaaS may be used mostly by organisations or IT professionals, SaaS or Software as a Service is the most common cloud computing model used by the general public, even if they’re not aware of it. SaaS is known for its quick deployability, easy scale-up, and their subscription model. […]
PaaS: What is it? What are it’s advantages and disadvantages?
What is PaaS? In the case of Software as a Service(software), a provider gets you a whole application hosted in the cloud, including your data. And in the case of Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), you get a couple of servers, along with virtualization, and on top of it you install an operating system, the middleware, […]
What exactly is IaaS?
IaaS IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service is one of the three types of cloud computing services available. In some ways, it can be considered as the first step into cloud computing, in the sense that, compared to PaaS or SaaS, you’ll still be controlling most of the tasks. Basically you get nothing but raw […]