PaaS big impact on the development of middleware to survive the future

The rise and popularity of PaaS (Platform as a Service) is likely to have an impact on the future survival of middleware.

As the popularity of PaaS services continues to grow, enterprises are beginning to have more and more freedom to choose from, bypassing the basic local IT infrastructure and operating system needs and focusing on the types of services and service level agreements (Referred to as SLA) above. This indicates that companies will no longer need complex middleware.

PaaS delivers middleware functionality

PaaS has largely changed the software development foothold. Often, middleware solutions focus on a particular runtime behavior such as running an application on an application server, executing a program, or working with a rules engine. Some providers provide as many tools or plug-ins as possible to make runtime-specific solutions easier to develop.

This is great from a manufacturer's standpoint, but are developers really satisfied with this? R & D staff are using a large number of run-time, and these run-time must be properly integrated with each other. Software must go through development, testing, and verification, and middleware vendors can not help with these key steps. As a result, R & D teams rely on special tool vendors for solutions such as continuous integration, static code analysis, code warehousing, bug tracking, and binary component warehouses.

In order to get the job done right, the R & D team is forced to partner with at least a dozen vendors to get the complete workbench they need. R & D teams then have to spend considerable time and resources creating, maintaining, and extending their environment, all at the expense of creating software and creating value for the enterprise.

On the other hand, PaaS provides a service. This service allows developers to create and run applications without worrying about the infrastructure and how to maintain them. IT can play a completely different role in this setup. They do not have to be involved in creating the infrastructure needed to run their applications, nor do they need to monitor, maintain, and patch the stack. In addition, they do not have to worry about providing a first-rate Java cluster for setting up firewalls, databases, and load balancers. IT can throw these questions to PaaS providers. Because of this, PaaS will be the new, highly reliable engine for R & D staff environment setups for environmental provisioning, management, monitoring, patching and evolution.

Do not forget "S" in PaaS. PaaS is more than just a well-written software program. PaaS providers are also emerging as a new support organization on which developers can rely, especially as things do not progress as expected by the developers. From the standpoint of IT operations department, PaaS can eliminate the contradiction between IT department and R & D department. Infrastructure and operations are currently managed by PaaS providers. These suppliers are teaching researchers new ideas, such as "creating an application" in a standardized concept or "giving me an application server." Obviously, this will help ease the conflict.

The disappearance of middleware is mainly due to the ability of vendors to provide developers with middleware services that do not require the latter to worry about the middleware layer. Although you can think of PaaS as a "middleware on the cloud," the fact is that the services PaaS provides to its developers include middleware capabilities.

Not only has the functionality of middleware been covered by PaaS's capabilities, but the latter has more features and a longer lifecycle to address all foundational and operational issues while bringing these great features together into one unified baby sitting program. In addition, PaaS vendors will also play a supportive role in the software development process to help R & D staff solve problems they encounter.