Programming for PaaS

Preface;
Programming Is Hard;
Writing Code That Works on PaaS;
Audience;
The Structure of This Book;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: The Cloud for Developers;
1.1 The Developer’s Plight;
1.2 What the Cloud Has Done for Innovation;
1.3 The Cloud: A Brief History for Programmers;
1.4 The Core of the Cloud;
1.5 Managed Platforms versus Productized Platforms;
1.6 The Cloud’s Promise (or Hype);
1.7 The Cloud in Five Years;
1.8 The Promise Fulfilled;
Chapter 2: What Is PaaS?;
2.1 Conjuring a Website;
2.2 Early Options for Developers;
2.3 PaaS: The Best of Both Worlds;
2.4 PaaS: A Vital Tool for Modern Apps;
2.5 Conjuring Confidence;
Chapter 3: Types of PaaS;
3.1 Non-Portable: Following a Template;
3.2 Portable: No Heavy Lifting Required;
3.3 Summary: Where Do You Want to Live?;
3.4 Dealing with Legacy and Greenfield Apps;
3.5 Tapping Into Services;
3.6 Moving Toward Open Standards;
Chapter 4: Moving Legacy Apps to PaaS;
4.1 Initial Considerations;
4.2 Overview;
4.3 Asset Hosting;
4.4 Session Management;
4.5 Caching;
4.6 Asynchronous Processing;
4.7 SQL;
4.8 NoSQL;
4.9 Miscellaneous Gotchas;
Chapter 5: Writing New Apps for PaaS;
5.1 Breaking Down the Monolith;
5.2 Leveraging APIs for Mobile Development;
5.3 The Emergence of JSON and REST;
5.4 Consuming RESTful Metaservices;
5.5 The Unique Contribution of PaaS;
5.6 The Effect of Moore’s Law;
Chapter 6: Mobile Apps on PaaS;
6.1 A Brief History of Mobile App Development;
6.2 The Apps of the Future;
6.3 Data Structures;
6.4 Consuming Metaservices in Mobile Clients;
6.5 How PaaS Makes Mobile Backend Development Easier;
6.6 Serving a Large Audience;
Chapter 7: A Look at Core Services;
7.1 Non-PaaS Core Services;
7.2 Evaluating PaaS for Services;
7.3 Saving Time with Managed Databases and PaaS;
7.4 Caches and PaaS: Look for Redundancy;
7.5 Solving the Challenges of Email;
7.6 The Importance of Monitoring;
7.7 Load Testing;
7.8 Planning an Upgrade Path;
Chapter 8: Why Not PaaS?;
8.1 Public Cloud versus Private Cloud;
8.2 How to Choose: Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses;
8.3 How to Choose: Enterprise Businesses;
8.4 The Limitations of PaaS;
8.5 Encountering Resistance;
8.6 Putting the Limitations in Perspective;
Chapter 9: The Future of PaaS;
9.1 The Influence of OpenStack;
9.2 Keeping Your Development Options Open;
9.3 Outages: Your Biggest Problem;
9.4 Regaining Control Through Open Source;
9.5 Final Thoughts;
Chapter 10: Resources;
10.1 PaaS Providers;
10.2 IaaS Providers;
10.3 Managed Services;
10.4 Migrating Legacy Apps to PaaS;
10.5 Greenfield PaaS App Development;
Colophon;