Taking PaaS on a Bike Ride
What is PaaS? I get asked this question a lot as I share with people my enthusiasm over joining Apprenda. Frequently, I receive blank stares when I say the words PaaS, or even the cloud, and as a...
View ArticleA Call to the Creatives: We’re Looking for You
The company I work with is in a massive growth stage and we’re hiring new team members aggressively. As a developer of the leading enterprise Private PaaS, part of that hiring is to bring on software...
View ArticleReturn of the Data Center
In the 1960s and 70s, mainframes ruled the data center. It was a time before the PC revolution, when visionaries were still imagining a world where individuals could put a personal computer on their...
View Article5 Lessons You Should Have Learned From The Heartbleed Bug By Now
If you haven’t heard about the Heartbleed bug, you should definitely read more about it from your news source of choice. It’s actually a very simple oversight in an important piece of security...
View ArticleThe Heartbleed Bug – a Solid Case for Message Security
In my last post, I pointed out that if certain types of systems were compromised during the exposure period of Heartbleed, other systems we rely on may also be compromised. This means that even though...
View ArticleHow a Well-Built Platform as a Service Handles Static Content
In many existing applications, developers use mechanisms to retain data throughout all or some computations of the running system. One of the most common mechanisms is to define “static” when...
View ArticleHow Apprenda Works with Containers
Recently, the Open Container Project was publicly announced with media praising both its diversity of sponsors and goals to build better software. Sponsors range from major enterprise players like...
View ArticleHow Apprenda SaaS Enables Existing Applications
Software as a Service (SaaS) is complex, and its very nature requires an application to be built with functionality that is outside the business domain. From a software-architecture perspective, the...
View ArticleWhy PaaS Is the Software Factory of the Modern Enterprise
At a recent family gathering, I found myself explaining the Apprenda Platform as a Service (PaaS) to some curious relatives. My family has a history in the hardware business, and I quickly realized...
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