How to get most out of your PaaS solution

Many companies are starting to implement PaaS (platform as a service) solutions. There are obvious benefits such as easy patching, scaling, pay per use, etc. There are also challenges when implementing a PaaS solution. In this post I will describe some of the challenges and provide some suggestions to allow you to enjoy your PaaS solution to the fullest.

The post is based on my presentation of a customer case on the Oracle Cloud day the 6th of October in the Netherlands this year.

https://www.oracle.com/cloudday/index.html

This customer had implemented a private PaaS solution and had faced several challenges. In this post I would like to present some of my findings (mainly based on interviews) in order to help customers who are considering a PaaS solution to make a good start with their implementation. The challenges / benefits are valid for private PaaS and public PaaS solutions.