Publisher’s Cloud Strategy Improves Uptime and Agility with PaaS

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It’s not a trivial matter to move from legacy environments to PaaS, but your workloads will thank you for it. Here’s how Springer Nature used PaaS and microservices to improve its business.

Everyone wants to “do cloud” these days, but reality—and legacy applications—bite. Some of the burden of moving to the cloud comes down to hefty labor costs, but some is simply a matter of figuring out what “cloud” actually means.

While we tend to talk most about Software-as-a-Service (e.g., Salesforce.com) or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (e.g., Amazon Web Services), there’s an oft-overlooked third cloud variant, Platform-as-a-Service, and it’s having a big impact on a range of businesses.

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