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

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User- and customer-specific application logic and data services are provisioned in a way that enables streamlined monitoring and updating In SaaS terms, this combination of user and customer is called tenant context. For a deep dive, have a look at the AWS Definitions – SaaS Lens ; for a deeper dive, see the Google DevOps Catalog here.

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

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Big data has been a game-changer. It has revolutionized tracking systems utilization and health data, by allowing capture of almost any conceivable system behavior. Platforms operations teams had potentially endless evidence of any set of data points describing what happened where and when.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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18-20 With 6+ years of research and data from over 31,000 professionals worldwide, DORA provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that drive high performance. And here’s the good news: most companies are pretty good at building their platform on reliable foundations.

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

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For purposes of your monetization strategy, the overwhelming majority of data that you need can be captured hourly and rolled up once a day, prior to export into graphs for exploration and analysis. “Real time” is not a technical requirement. More often than not, it’s a casual expression for “When can I have it?”

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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Additional Isolation Options – Supplementary isolation approaches focused on compute and data Storage considerations. There’s no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture, so practical strategies of building such frameworks will vary. Governing authorities lay down regulation on private data protection.