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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”. Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward. It’s probably the single biggest technical-debt leverage exercise in modern software history. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo.

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

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When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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Finally, you need to do it quickly, because if you’re not competitive, your customers can and will take their business elsewhere. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Customers may tell you what they don’t like, but they can’t always tell you how to fix it (nor would you ask them).