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Investing in Upstash

Andreessen Horowitz

By that, we mean services that scale to zero, are globally distributed, and scale up based on demand. First, application logic is becoming event-driven for new apps, necessitated by high volume and low-latency communication between third-party APIs and microservices. The serverless platform shift is unfolding at a rapid pace.

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User Model: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 1

CloudGeometry

Part 1: User Model & Onboarding If you have a business model, you have put together ideas about users. The simplifying power of the MVC software design pattern makes it tempting to assume that SaaS and web application development is no more than a web-based version of a 3-tier stack. Or just drop us a line.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

The Fundamental Goal of SaaS tenant Isolation – Know what tenancy is, its types, and key services from a user/customer context. A tenant is the set of application services dedicated to a single specific set of users and customers. For instance, every tenant using an application might have access to its own database.