Prior to joining ActiveState as a Technology Evangelist, I was a developer at a variety of companies. During my career I was constantly fighting the same battle: getting mired in the weeds of software development. I wanted to build great applications, and I was able to do so, but at the great cost of dealing with infrastructure headaches. Way too much of my time was being spent on the operations side, when all I really wanted to do was build software and get it out the door.
Over two years ago I discovered Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). I saw ActiveState’s Stackato private PaaS and downloaded the micro cloud on my computer. I started it up and deployed an application to it. The moment I was able to do that, I was shocked at how simple it was. I recalled all of my years in development and realized the amount of time I could have saved by having a tool such as Stackato during that time. I remember how long it used to take to get everything in place just to deploy a single app.
A PaaS makes deploying apps simple by providing an abstraction between the infrastructure and application layers. Most items that typical enterprise applications need to run are provided, so developers don’t have to configure, install or even understand the underlying process. So much is handled automatically it becomes trivial to deploy an app. Looking back, I wonder how I ever deployed apps without it.
–John Wetherill, Technology Evangelist, ActiveState

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