The document provides an overview of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and its historical development from the early concepts of cloud computing to modern implementations. It highlights key milestones in the evolution of cloud technologies, including notable platforms like Salesforce, AWS, and Azure. The author, Alex Khaerov, emphasizes the efficiency and self-service capabilities of PaaS for developers.

1. Understanding
PaaS

2. Whoami Alex Khaerov
6+ years in the industry
Dev Unit Manager
@hayorov

3. Term “cloud”
History
Cloud overview
*aaS
Where to get

5. = Internet

6. 1966 John McCarthy
1950s Mainframes 1997 “cloud computing”
1999 Salesforce
1970s Virtualization
1990s VPN
2007 Heroku
2002 AWS
2006 Google Docs
2008 GAE
2009 Azure
2014 Bluemix

7. Elastic
Pooled
Resources
Usage
Based
Self
Service

8. PaaS
SaaS
IaaS

10. PaaS
for developers

11. Industrial
standard

12. More
efficient

13. Be faster

14. Heroku
AppEngine
Azure