the.com/paas
rent the kitchen, skip the plumbing, bring your own recipe.
means platform as a service: a cloud layer that handles servers, runtime, and scaling so developers just deploy code.
from emerged mid-2000s as cloud computing split into layers — iaas gave you raw infrastructure, saas gave you finished apps, paas filled the gap for people who just wanted to build.
pioneer platformheroku launched 2007, popularized the model
stack layersits between iaas and saas
tradeoffless control, way less devops headache
modern heirsvercel and render carry the torch