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Put another way: Google has built several generations of internal PaaSes. This unblocks continuous deployment at the final step, so latency from idea to produc
by jacques_chester 11y ago
Put another way: Google has built several generations of internal PaaSes.
This unblocks continuous deployment at the final step, so latency from idea to production falls from years/months/weeks to hours. Or minutes.
Docker's had an interesting life: they built a PaaS, discarded the PaaS, now they're building a PaaS. Because that's what most developers actually need for their daily lives.
It turns out that tinkering with V8s is a lot of fun for a lot of people, but most drivers just want to know how to turn on the car and have the same basic interface work for any workload: wheel, accelerator, brake.
Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, which is the majority donor of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry, a PaaS inspired in part by Google's experiences.
- melted 11y agoI wouldn't quite go as far as to call Borg a PaaS. It's at a somewhat lower level, closer to IaaS. You get a known quantity from it in the form of a stable, tuned, stripped down underlying Linux image, plus a relatively small set of services, but you can deploy pretty much whatever the hell you want without a lot of constraints a "true" PaaS would force you to accept.
- jacques_chester 11y agoMy understanding is that BOSH is the closest to this from the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
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- michaelbuckbee 11y agoThis mirrors my understanding: that Docker is awesome if you want to build your own PAAS. Otherwise use CF, Heroku or whatever.