Application Platform Services (APS)

APS stands for Application Platform Service - providing web developers with unified backend APIs as well as build and deployment infra. The result is secure web applications - built quickly and reliably, deployed on scalable and fully managed top-notch cloud infrastructure.

Why Web Apps

The world has shifted from stand-alone to client-server to browser based intranet and internet applications.

Now a great software application comprises only a few tiers of loosely coupled programs. The rest is internet/intranet infrastructure. Using this sort of architecture provides many advantages. No portability problem, No need to install and therefore no need to take pain of tedious configurations accross machines. Everything is ready on the fly.

It is a software application that resides on server and uses web browser as its user interface device. Web mail is an example, online banking another.

Edge Computing

Web applications deployed on managed and edge-aware infra take advantage of new core-n-edge computing paradigm. Static content (images, video, html) is cached closer to user and a part of application runs on the edge to speed up response times and accelerate application delivery. The idea is to cache and run as much of application content and functionality as practicable given security and persistence in mind.