PaaS & SaaS

By
Mr. Saurabh Singhal
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering & Applications
GLA University
 What is PaaS?
• Platform as a service (PaaS) is a complete development
and deployment environment in the cloud, with resources
that enable user to deliver everything from simple cloud-
based apps to sophisticated, cloud-enabled enterprise
applications.
• User purchase the resources required from a cloud service
provider on a pay-as-you-go basis and access them over a
secure Internet connection.
• Like IaaS, PaaS includes infrastructure—servers, storage
and networking—but also middleware, development tools,
business intelligence (BI) services, database management
systems and more.
 What is PaaS?
• PaaS is designed to support the complete web application
lifecycle: building, testing, deploying, managing and
updating.
• PaaS allows user to avoid the expense and complexity of
buying and managing software licenses, the underlying
application infrastructure and middleware, container
orchestrators such as Kubernetes or the development tools
and other resources.
 What is PaaS?

Hosted Development Operating Servers Networking Data center

applications tools, database systems and firewalls/ physical
/apps management, storage security plant/building
business analytics
 Common PaaS scenarios
• Organisations typically use PaaS for these scenarios:
• Development framework. PaaS provides a framework
that developers can build upon to develop or customise
cloud-based applications.
• Analytics or business intelligence. Tools provided as a
service with PaaS allow organizations to analyze and mine
their data, finding insights and patterns and predicting
outcomes to improve forecasting, product design decisions,
investment returns and other business decisions.
• Additional services. PaaS providers may offer other
services that enhance applications, such as workflow,
directory, security and scheduling.
 Advantages of PaaS
• Cut coding time.
• Add development capabilities without adding staff.
• Develop for multiple platforms—including mobile—more
easily.
• Use sophisticated tools affordably. Support geographically
distributed development teams.
• Efficiently manage the application lifecycle.
 Disadvantages of PaaS
• Vendor lock-in
• Data Privacy
• Integration with the rest of the systems
applications
 Top vendors
• Google Apps Engine (GAE)
• SalesFroce.com
• Windows Azure
• AppFog
• Openshift
• Cloud Foundary from VMware
 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• A service-oriented architecture is essentially a collection of
services.
• These services communicate with each other.
• The communication can involve either simple data passing
or it could involve two or more services coordinating some
activity.
• Some means of connecting services to each other is
needed.
• A service is a function that is well-defined, self-contained,
and does not depend on the context or state of other
services.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• The technology of Web Services is the most likely

connection technology of service-oriented
architectures.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• There are two major roles within Service-oriented
Architecture:
• Service provider: The service provider is the maintainer
of the service and the organization that makes available
one or more services for others to use. To advertise
services, the provider can publish them in a registry,
together with a service contract that specifies the nature of
the service, how to use it, the requirements for the service,
and the fees charged.
• Service consumer: The service consumer can locate the
service metadata in the registry and develop the required
client components to bind and use the service.
 Advantages of SOA
• Service reusability
• Easy maintenance
• Platform independent
• Availability
• Reliability
• Scalability
 Disadvantages of SOA
• High overhead
• High investment
• Complex service management
Components of SOA
 SaaS
• Software as a service (or SaaS) is a way of delivering
applications over the Internet—as a service. Instead of
installing and maintaining software, you simply access it
via the Internet, freeing yourself from complex software
and hardware management.
• SaaS applications are sometimes called Web-based
software, on-demand software, or hosted software.
Whatever the name, SaaS applications run on a SaaS
provider’s servers.
• The provider manages access to the application, including
security, availability, and performance
 Advantages of SaaS
• SaaS is easy to buy
• Less hardware required for SaaS
• Low Maintenance required for SaaS
• No special software or hardware versions required
 Disadvantages of SaaS
• Security
• Latency issue
• Total Dependency on Internet
• Switching between SaaS vendors is difficult
 Open SaaS and SOA
• A considerable amount of SaaS software is based on open
source software.
• When open source software is used in a SaaS, it is referred
to as Open SaaS.
• The advantages of using open source software are that
systems are much cheaper to deploy because users don’t
have to purchase the operating system or software, there is
less vendor lock-in, and applications are more portable.
• The impact of Open SaaS will likely translate into better
profitability for the companies that deploy open source
software in the cloud, resulting in lower development costs
and more robust solutions.
 Open SaaS and SOA
• The componentized nature of SaaS solutions enables many
of these solutions to support a feature called mashups.
• A mashup is an application that can display a Web page
that shows data and supports features from two or more
sources.
• Annotating a map such as Google maps is an example of a
mashup.
• Mashups are considered one of the premier examples of
Web 2.0, and that is technology’s ability to support social
network systems.
 Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 is the term used to describe a variety of web sites and
applications that allow anyone to create and share online
information or material they have created. A key element of
the technology is that it allows people to create, share,
collaborate & communicate
• It’s a simply improved version of the first world wide web,
characterized specifically by the change from static to dynamic
or user-generated content and also the growth of social media.
• The concept behind Web 2.0 refers to rich web applications,
web- oriented architecture and social web. It refer to changes
in the ways web pages are designed and used by the users,
without any change in any technical specifications.
 Advantages of Web 2.0
• Available at any time, any place.
• Variety of media.
• Ease of usage.
• Learners can actively be involved in knowledge building.
• Can create dynamic learning communities.
• Everybody is the author and the editor, every edit that has
been made can be tracked.
• User friendly
• Updates in wiki are immediate and it offers more sources
for researchers.
• Provides real-time discussion
Differences between Web 1.o, Web 2.o
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Content Speedy
destination sites and personal more timely information and
portals more efficient tools to find
information
Search Collaborative
critical mass of content drives actions of user a mass, police,
need for search engines and prioritize content
Commerce Trust-worthy
goes mainstrean; digital good user establish trust networks
rise and home trust radars
 Technologies
• The client-side technologies used in Web 2.0 development
include Ajax and JavaScript frameworks.
• Ajax programming uses JavaScript and the Document
Object Model (DOM) to update selected regions of the page
area without undergoing a full page reload.
• To allow users to continue interacting with the page,
communications such as data requests going to the server
are separated from data coming back to the page
 Concepts
• Web 2.0 can be described in three parts:
• Rich Internet application (RIA) — defines the experience
brought from desktop to browser, whether it is "rich" from
a graphical point of view or a usability/interactivity or
features point of view.
• Web-oriented architecture (WOA) — defines how Web
2.0 applications expose their functionality so that other
applications can leverage and integrate the functionality
providing a set of much richer applications.
• Social Web — defines how Web 2.0 websites tend to
interact much more with the end user and make the end
user an integral part of the website
 WebOS
• WebOS is a Linux-based proprietary mobile operating
system. This mobile OS runs on devices like Palm Pre
phones, Palm Pixi phones and the HP Veer.
• There are two ways of developing WebOS applications:
– By using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This requires the
software development kit, which can be installed on a
computer running OS X, Windows or Ubuntu.
– By using C or C++., This requires the platform
development kit, which can only run on Windows and
Mac computers.