Since the recent launch of the HCP Waypoint public beta, I found this article briefly going over the history of Waypoint, and its new features and challenges. the point made about Waypoint's approach to PaaS, as "the glue" between different platforms stuck with me. the plugin system working with the core of Waypoint makes the switch between building and deploying to different platforms pretty seamless. it's still

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to get your app up and running regardless of the platform