PaaS
Platform as a service provides a platform for running or developing applications. Users get both computing resources and the infrastructure software needed to run or develop applications, without managing all the hardware themselves.
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In business automation
With PaaS, you deploy an application to a platform that manages much of the runtime infrastructure. The code still needs to fit the environment's constraints, such as execution time, temporary storage, and database connections.
Examples
These examples illustrate a possible workflow. Adapt the connections and rules to your own systems.
Business process example
A team deploys a service that receives webhooks and saves them to a database. Longer processing runs in a separate process so the incoming request does not have to wait for the report to be generated.
Relevant tools
- Vercel
- A deployment and runtime platform for web applications; automation tasks need to fit the runtime environment's constraints.
What to check
- Do not store essential information only in a function's memory or temporary disk. Check how the environment handles restarts.