thanks duncan for the reply, i am still not sold on paas as a long term solution, my reasoning being as such, companies like google that have their own paas (ga

thanks duncan for the reply, i am still not sold on paas as a long term solution, my reasoning being as such, companies like google that have their own paas (gae), don't even use it to run large portions of their own infrastructure. take for instance, facebook as well, they do not use paas as far as i'm aware for major portions of their sites, and i would say that those 2 companies are representative of extreme scale. so why wouldn't a company of this scale need/want paas? i guess part of it is that they can afford sres and devops, but the counter-argument would be that if they could do without sres/devops, why wouldn't they? i guess what i don't like about most paas is the fact that you lose some level of control over the environment for the sake of convenience and bliss, but at the end of the day, someone has to fix all those bugs in your paas layer.