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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

Baremetrics

You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Deciding up front how much devops you want your dev team to do is a critical step. And… It’s not fun.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. There is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Table Of Contents What are DevOps best practices?

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

CloudGeometry

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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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. Do you need your prospective buyer to connect your tool into their AWS account and then load in a ton of data in order for them to see the product in action?

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Navigating Choppy SaaS Waters

Chart Mogul

If you think about your DevOps, moving from one cloud infrastructure setup to another is quite a demanding task that requires resources and manpower. You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. So a defensive posturing might give you more leeway.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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11 application security questions that show if your SaaS is enterprise-ready

Audacix

If you don't have this expertise within your team and your external penetration testing partner doesn't offer it, talk to us about our subscription-based pentest-as-a-service plans. You probably host it on AWS/Google Cloud/Azure - brands that are well known for prioritising your and their own security. Why, you ask?