Industry Keyword: DevOps

Industry Overview The application platforms industry is a rapidly growing field that offers businesses of all sizes the opportunity to create, manage, and deploy applications using the latest technology. Software application platforms provide organisations with an integrated suite of tools that can be used to create custom applications, manage data, and deploy applications across multiple platforms. Application platforms are used to streamline business processes, reduce costs, and improve customer experiences. Application platforms typically provide a wide range of features, such as application development...

Introduction The adoption of microservices architectures and container orchestration platforms has transformed how software is built, deployed, and scaled across enterprise environments. As digital transformation accelerates, organisations are rearchitecting legacy applications into modular, loosely coupled services that promise improved agility, scalability, and fault tolerance. At the heart of this transformation lie platforms such as Kubernetes and serverless frameworks, which enable automation and flexibility but also introduce complex economic considerations. This study, which is available in full to our Premium members,...

Introduction The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) infrastructure landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by the rise of the API economy, microservices architectures, and cloud-native application development. As enterprise software strategies shift toward modular, scalable components, API-based access to infrastructure services such as storage, compute, and orchestration has become foundational. This study, which is available in full exclusively to Premium members, explores the technical, economic, and competitive dimensions of this shift, with a particular focus on usage-based billing, hardened Service Level Agreements, and the strategic...