Programming for PaaS 1st Edition

To begin with, the author will make you feel passionate after telling you the story of his first web site being destroyed by hard disk failure. Everybody who ever saw a blue screen of death with a bunch of unsaved files in the background will understand. And then it will become immediately clear what the author wants to achieve in this book.Each chapter is written nicely, with some code examples and relevant links. In particular, I liked the last chapter titled Resources, in which the author presents his collection of PaaS-related links. By glancing over them, I immediately found a few of interest for my own projects. For example, I have been working on a Django project for a long time, and there was a link to a tool that can add a RESTful APIs for such projects, with no effort required from my side.I definitely recommend to read this book, even if you are familiar with most of the topics. You will find some interesting stuff inside.

Good source for knowledge & information for beginners. I personally liked the way the book has been divided into multiple chapters, each touching upon key tenants for PaaS implementation.I would like to see a sequel to this book, and would like to see the authors delve deeper on the key topics.NOTE: This is a publication from couple years ago, that's why concepts like containers, open source et al have NOT been linked from the right perspective.

This book is a good backgrounder on PaaS - so much so that I think it'd be a good read for someone looking to learn more about it vs other things (IaaS or other clouds). I though the programming part was a little thin. I think PaaS is still in its infancy and the challenge of a survey of PaaS programming techniques will get even harder. Maybe down the road books will emerge that focus on specific parts of PaaS. The bottomline is I thought the book could have been better on the programming side if it went deeper - but that's a hard thing to do with such a broad survey.

Excellent information about "Platform as a Surface" or PaaS. I picked this book because I sat in on a presentation that Lucas Carlson the author gave at VMworld 2013. This book is really insightful for me from an infrastructure standpoint because I want to begin building these types of environments for my developers and getting a feel of what's available and what other systems do is invaluable.

A 75000 ft level view of PaaS. It was obvious that the author never worked in an Enterprise shop, with statements like the following when referring to on premise legacy applications, "In a shared or or dedicated hosting environment where you assume that servers never go down. In non virtualized environments, one can often run and an application with all of its services on a single server, larger applications may put the database services on a separate machine. Frequently there is no need to deal with replication issues, data consistency issues, or session management issues." Really??? Enterprise don't worry about HA and DR???? This was the depth of the entire book!There was not a single line dedicated to how Cloud Foundry or any other PaaS offering actually works. I could have gotten much more in depth information from Wiki in about 10 minutes. I have to figure out how to get my $13 back.

The book provides a good intro and overview of the PaaS landscape. This is a fast moving, complex world and I recommend this book for newbies.