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

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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

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Monitoring technology such as Prometheus can do much of this for you, aggregating event and time-series data for actionable monitoring, metrics, trending and diagnostics. It’s tempting to assume there is a metrics model which tells you everything you need to know about the feedback loop of your SaaS strategy.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. A Multi-Tenant SaaS model that leverages a single software and infrastructure instance to serve multiple customers, thus bringing in efficient usability and greater cost benefits.