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Step 4: Figure Out What
Your Requirements Are
Create a set of requirements with consideration for pop-up
concerns:
✓ What language do you prefer to work with
✓ How much abstraction do you need
✓ Do you want a platform that automates many of the routine
tasks in both development and deployment
✓ What type of middleware is already in use and what middleware
services do you need
✓ How much integration do you need to do with other
public or private environments
Getting the answers to these questions makes your selection
process a lot easier.
Step 5: Put Together
an Evaluation Team
A PaaS environment can have a dramatic change in how your
organization develops software, so you don’t want to make
a decision on your own. A PaaS environment touches many
parts of the business, so put together a team that represents
all the key constituents and stakeholders to include representatives
from development, quality assurance, and operations.
Step 6: Conduct a Pilot Project
Identify a project that’s well-defined and can show the development
and operations team how well PaaS supports the development
of a business project. You may want to try several PaaS
environments so you can experience different approaches.