An emerging set of vendors is trying to simplify the job of web development, again. Is this the next generation of platform as a service, or something completely different?
Back in the mid-2000s, the software industry and the venture capitalists funding software startups became interested in the idea of platform as a service (PaaS), promising a simple, one-stop-shop platform for software developers to take their ideas from source code to production. Despite the early success of some of these platforms most notably Heroku, which is