gistfile1.txt

{
  "technology_radar": {
    "title": "PaaS Technology Radar 2025",
    "date": "2025-02-04",
    "rings": [
      "Adopt",
      "Trial",
      "Assess",
      "Hold"
    ],
    "items": [
      {
        "name": "Heroku",
        "vendor": "Salesforce",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A pioneer PaaS known for its simplicity and excellent developer experience.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://www.heroku.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Render",
        "vendor": "Render",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A modern cloud platform for web services, APIs, background workers, and static sites with automatic scaling.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://render.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Fly.io",
        "vendor": "Fly.io",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A global application platform that deploys apps close to end users to minimize latency.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://fly.io"
      },
      {
        "name": "DigitalOcean App Platform",
        "vendor": "DigitalOcean",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A fully managed platform offering simple, cost-effective deployments with transparent pricing.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"
      },
      {
        "name": "AWS Elastic Beanstalk",
        "vendor": "Amazon Web Services",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Deploy and scale web applications using familiar languages with minimal infrastructure management.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/"
      },
      {
        "name": "AWS App Runner",
        "vendor": "Amazon Web Services",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A fully managed service for running containerized web applications and APIs with ease.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/"
      },
      {
        "name": "AWS Fargate",
        "vendor": "Amazon Web Services",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A serverless compute engine for containers that eliminates the need to manage underlying servers.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Google Cloud Run",
        "vendor": "Google Cloud",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A serverless platform for containerized applications that automatically scales based on demand.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://cloud.google.com/run"
      },
      {
        "name": "Google App Engine",
        "vendor": "Google Cloud",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A fully managed platform for building and deploying scalable web applications and mobile backends.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://cloud.google.com/appengine"
      },
      {
        "name": "Azure App Service",
        "vendor": "Microsoft Azure",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling enterprise-grade web apps.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Railway",
        "vendor": "Railway",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A developer‑friendly platform that simplifies cloud deployments with intuitive workflows.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://railway.app"
      },
      {
        "name": "Dokku",
        "vendor": "Community",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A lightweight, open‑source PaaS built on Docker, enabling Heroku‑like deployments on your own servers.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/"
      },
      {
        "name": "CapRover",
        "vendor": "Community",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "An open‑source platform offering a simple, Heroku‑like experience for self‑hosted deployments.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://caprover.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Koyeb",
        "vendor": "Koyeb",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A serverless platform emphasizing low‑latency and globally distributed application deployments.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://www.koyeb.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "IBM Cloud Foundry",
        "vendor": "IBM",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Built on Cloud Foundry, this offering supports rapid cloud application development in enterprise environments.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloud-foundry"
      },
      {
        "name": "Red Hat OpenShift",
        "vendor": "Red Hat",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "An enterprise Kubernetes platform providing robust PaaS capabilities for containerized applications.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://www.openshift.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cloud Foundry",
        "vendor": "Cloud Foundry Foundation",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "An open‑source cloud platform to build, deploy, and scale applications in enterprise settings.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.cloudfoundry.org"
      },
      {
        "name": "Platform.sh",
        "vendor": "Platform.sh",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A managed PaaS focused on continuous deployment and supporting multiple languages and frameworks.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://platform.sh"
      },
      {
        "name": "Engine Yard",
        "vendor": "Engine Yard",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Specializes in hosting applications built with Ruby, Node.js, and PHP.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.engineyard.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Tanzu Application Service)",
        "vendor": "VMware",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "An enterprise‑grade PaaS for deploying cloud‑native applications with robust scalability and security.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-service"
      },
      {
        "name": "Oracle Application Container Cloud",
        "vendor": "Oracle",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Oracle Cloud’s offering for containerized applications with simplified deployment and scaling.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.oracle.com/cloud/"
      },
      {
        "name": "SAP Cloud Platform",
        "vendor": "SAP",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Enables extension and integration of SAP applications with cloud‑native capabilities.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-platform.html"
      },
      {
        "name": "Salesforce Platform",
        "vendor": "Salesforce",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Designed for building enterprise apps that integrate seamlessly with Salesforce’s ecosystem.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Mendix",
        "vendor": "Mendix",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A low‑code development platform that accelerates app delivery with visual modeling and automated deployments.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.mendix.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "OutSystems",
        "vendor": "OutSystems",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A high‑performance low‑code platform for rapidly developing enterprise applications.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.outsystems.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Appian",
        "vendor": "Appian",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A low‑code automation platform focused on rapid app development and process automation.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.appian.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Virtuozzo Application Platform",
        "vendor": "Virtuozzo",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Formerly known as Jelastic, it offers automated scaling and containerized deployments in both public and private clouds.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://virtuozzo.com/application-platform/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Netlify",
        "vendor": "Netlify",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Optimized for deploying static sites and JAMstack applications with built‑in CI/CD and serverless functions.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://www.netlify.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Vercel",
        "vendor": "Vercel",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A cloud platform optimized for frontend frameworks and static site generation with seamless deployments.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://vercel.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Google Firebase",
        "vendor": "Google",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A serverless backend platform for mobile and web apps featuring real‑time databases, authentication, and hosting.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://firebase.google.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cloudflare Workers",
        "vendor": "Cloudflare",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "An edge computing platform for deploying serverless functions globally for low‑latency performance.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://www.cloudflare.com/workers/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Backendless",
        "vendor": "Backendless",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A mobile backend-as-a-service (mBaaS) platform offering real‑time databases, APIs, and user management.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://backendless.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "OpenFaaS",
        "vendor": "Community",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "An open‑source serverless framework that simplifies deploying functions on any container or Kubernetes cluster.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.openfaas.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Scaleway Application Platform",
        "vendor": "Scaleway",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Offers container‑based and serverless application deployments with a focus on simplicity.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://www.scaleway.com/en/products/app-platform/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Alibaba Cloud Web App Service",
        "vendor": "Alibaba Cloud",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "A managed platform for web application deployment with integrated scaling and monitoring capabilities.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/web-app-service"
      },
      {
        "name": "Tencent Cloud PaaS",
        "vendor": "Tencent Cloud",
        "category": "Traditional PaaS",
        "description": "Provides managed deployments for web and mobile applications in the Tencent ecosystem.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/product/paas"
      },
      {
        "name": "Humanitec",
        "vendor": "Humanitec",
        "category": "Platform Engineering",
        "description": "An internal developer platform that automates deployments and manages infrastructure, streamlining platform engineering.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://www.humanitec.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Backstage",
        "vendor": "Spotify / Community",
        "category": "Platform Engineering",
        "description": "An open platform for building developer portals and internal developer platforms to enhance developer experience.",
        "ring": "Adopt",
        "website": "https://backstage.io"
      },
      {
        "name": "Porter",
        "vendor": "Porter",
        "category": "Platform Engineering",
        "description": "Simplifies Kubernetes application deployments, enabling streamlined platform engineering workflows.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://porter.run"
      },
      {
        "name": "Epinio",
        "vendor": "Epinio",
        "category": "Platform Engineering",
        "description": "An open source platform for deploying applications to Kubernetes with a Heroku‑like experience, ideal for internal teams.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://epinio.io"
      },
      {
        "name": "Shipa",
        "vendor": "Shipa",
        "category": "Platform Engineering",
        "description": "An open source application management platform for Kubernetes that supports modern platform engineering practices.",
        "ring": "Assess",
        "website": "https://shipa.io"
      },
      {
        "name": "Rafay",
        "vendor": "Rafay Systems",
        "category": "Platform Engineering",
        "description": "Provides a comprehensive solution for managing Kubernetes clusters and streamlining developer workflows.",
        "ring": "Trial",
        "website": "https://www.rafay.co"
      }
    ]
  }
}