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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. The latter, of course, was pioneered by Amazon, which launched the billing model based on user events in 2006. How AWS Does It.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach. ISVs and SaaS providers differ in software distribution, licensing models, hosting responsibilities, support options, upgrade and maintenance procedures, and scalability.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Billing events and unit metrics The variable cost model of cloud platforms has forever changed how compute resources are bought and paid for and consumed. From the perspective of cloud architecture, the variable cost model means translating an incremental unit of cloud resources into an incremental unit of customer value.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

If the architecture specifies tracking of user-level activity, it’s not difficult to slice-and-dice the log data to select for a user parameter (such as with a JWT token ), or using tags to match user/tenant activity to the per unit billing that AWS itemizes in your monthly cloud bill.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is one such approach that helps adopt architectural best practices (whether or not you run on AWS) and adapt continuously.

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

Eventbrite initially found this success with a content loop around event creation. What became clear after building this model of how Eventbrite grows is that all of this effort would no longer drive the kind of growth Eventbrite needed to be successful on the public markets. This is what I realized when I joined Eventbrite.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

As we cross the threshold from one decade to another, it’s natural to look back at the previous 10 years and try to make sense of events. Viewed this way, it might seem like the 2010s were less eventful than the 2000s – after all, the tech giants of today are largely the same as a decade ago. The decade ahead.