I am an experienced Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
professional. I am now helping Morph Labs bring their
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, the Morph Application
Platform and Morph AppSpaces, to the North American market. My main
focus at Morph is bringing the concept of a Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS) to the Ruby on Rails community. The idea of a PaaS for your
Rails applications is quite compelling, but is also difficult to wrap
your brain around for those with a server-centric background. With a
PaaS, you no longer think about servers or infrastructure. Obviously
the benefits of PaaS to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or web start-up
are great, the least of which is the reduction of infrastructure
investment. The greatest gains come in the form of improved
productivity by allowing developers to focus on the core product and
not the underlying system administration and scalability functions.
The productivity gains from a PaaS such as the Morph Application
Platform and Morph AppSpaces, that allow you to use standard
development and deployment tools (such as Git, Capistrano, etc.), along
with a standard language and framework (Ruby and Rails respectively)
are significant. Where in the past you might have pushed features to
version 2.0 (or higher) because you needed to spend time on
scalability, security, and administration features or spend money on
infrastructure and not developers, with Morph AppSpaces, you can pull
those features back into the 1.0 release!
Obviously I'm pretty excited about what Morph is doing. The
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market is heating up, and Morph is right
there with the first PaaS offering for Ruby on Rails applications. If
you are a Rails developer, you owe it to yourself and your clients to
take a look at what we have to offer.
