A year or two ago, PaaS systems were monolithic. A single vendor or solution, like Heroku, would provide one system that handled all aspects of PaaS. But things are changing. With a plethora of Open Source tools like Docker, Packer, Serf, CoreOS, Dokku, and Flynn, it is now possible to build your own PaaS. But what exactly makes up a PaaS?
I will take a functional approach to defining PaaS by asking what are the things that a PaaS does?
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