Cloud Solutions
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides some infrastructure components, along with additional managed service and software. A PaaS is a framework developers can use to create their own applications, focusing on developing software functionality for their end users. The cloud provider manages complex back-end infrastructure, including computing resources, operating systems, software updates, storage, networking, and integrations.
We offer five main services of Platform as a Service in which multiple service types host a custom application or a business logic for specific use cases:
Web apps
These are an abstraction of a Web Server such as IIS and Tomcat that run applications written in mostly in Java, Python,.NET, PHP, Node.js, etc. These are simple to set up and provide a variety of benefits, available 99.9% of the time which is a key benefit.
Mobile apps
The back ends of mobile apps can be hosted on the Azure PaaS easily using the SDKs available for all major mobile operating systems of iOS, Android, Windows, etc. It enables the unique ability of offline sync so the user can use the app even if they are offline and sync the data back when they are back online. Another major benefit is the ability to push notifications allowing sending of custom notifications for all targeted application users.
Logic apps
No apps are hosted, but there is an orchestrated business logic app to automate a business process. These are initiated by a trigger when a predefined business condition is met.
Functions
Functional apps can perform multiple tasks within the same application. These functional apps host smaller applications such as microservices and background jobs that only run for short periods.
Web jobs
These are a part of a service that runs within an app service on web apps or mobile apps. They are similar to Functions but do not require any coding to set it up.