Many companies are evaluating hardware assets, software assets, and most importantly the operating expenses levied in the deployment of such. As many companies look toward the Agile way as the clear vision of lean development, others have coupled cloud development as the new norm for product development and product deployment. Enter the new world of Software as a Service…
Software as a Service commonly referred to as SaaS has taken on various shapes and forms. Companies that are developing platforms have coined this term Platform as a Service (PaaS), and those that are developing test platforms have coined this as Test Platform as a Service (TaaS). In either case, the development of a software based solutions as a service-driven solution has become the new defacto for smarter and leaner ways of traditional software solutions.
In consideration of a traditional software applications that utilize the common application programming interface (API), serious intrigue in the ability to interface with the mass has extended a microscope to many corporations to look beyond the norm. So what does this mean? Interfacing with the mass is essentially the ability to interface with more resources over a larger geographical area. We can simply say with fewer words that software development incorporated with RESTful / REST interfaces have become the new interface for the mass. As companies seek to extend the product life and introduce new elements of existing software, a look in the right direction would be to consider cloud-borne software.
Many cloud solutions providers such as Amazon now provide vehicles for hosting software in the cloud. In consideration of platforms or test platforms as a service, customers can deploy their existing applications in the cloud, wrap them around secure boundaries, and utilize microservices as a limiter to grant allowances for various functions or attributes of their software that were traditionally confined using legacy license models deployed with traditional software.
Other alternatives to platform based or contained deployment of solutions such as a Saas/PaaS/ TaaS include direct service integration within the traditional software stack. Amazon / AWS has proven that the usability and feasibility of what some coin as “injected services” is a reliable alternative to platform based cloud solutions. Such service injections are aligned with remote or cloud-based gateways (such as AWS’s API Gateway) where the incorporation of a freely distributed SDK provides a direct path to a plethora of readily available microservices that essentially give steroids to your application stack upon compilation or inclusion of the respective SDK supporting your development stack.
SaaS/PaaS/TaaS are a reliable, cost conserving, and powerful evolution to traditional software development and deployment.
About the author:
Darren Johnson is a technologist trained in electrical engineering, cloud solutions, product design, product management, systems engineering, and Agile methodology.
Would you like to further explore the contents of this post or other technical areas? Contact Darren today to be connected to business partners geared to providing technical services and consulting.
www.darrenjohnson.org | All content published and distributed by TEAM with expressed consent
Copyright darrenjohnson.org © 2019. All Rights Reserved.
