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

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Put another way, the user model describes the “who” of what your software does. 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. Onboarding in SaaS is an end-to-end process.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers. The User Stories at the core of Agile/Scrum development style are essential for translating customer intent into feature development.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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Behind the curtain, selling essentially the same software to different users and companies, again and again, relies on a distinct product architecture: secure multi-tenancy. The Single-Tenant architecture that dedicates specific software and infrastructure services to a single customer (in many ways similar to the world before cloud).