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;.