<DIV><p>As a web application developer, you’ve had only a few options in the past 20 years: shared web hosting (easy but slow and unreliable) or dedicated web hosting (hard and unreliable). Platform as a service (PaaS) not only gives you a new option, it offers the best of both worlds as an easy, fast, reliable, and scalable solution.</p><p>Among other advantages, this book will give you:</p><ul><li>An explanation of the confusion between core cloud technology vs cloud-powered apps like Gmail, Dropbox, etc </li><li>Real life PaaS case studies </li><li>A lesson of the tradeoffs between portable and non-portable PaaS systems </li><li>Code examples of app changes </li><li>An overview of mobile apps on PaaS </li></ul></div>