Pizza as a Service Model

Noun · Hacker Culture

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  1. A humorous explanatory model that compares layers of service responsibility to pizza-making, often used to explain SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS tradeoffs.

    In plain English: A pizza analogy for explaining different service and cloud responsibility models.

    Example: "The ops lead used the pizza as a service model to explain hosted versus self-managed databases."

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