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

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Cost to serve a customer-facing feature is money that comes out of your pocket, and goes straight into the cloud provider’s pocket. When you want to procure more cloud resources faster, cloud providers make it easiest to buy speed, whether or not that pays off for you in the long run. It‘s almost always a function of time.

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

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Whatever you call software-enabled, cloud-based competitive advantage, understanding the business impact of “digital transformation” is the focus of the massive 8-year study conducted by the DevOps Research Institute. Big data has been a game-changer.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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Hint: All the public cloud companies are doubling down on full-stack SaaS, betting that it’s the best way to get more companies growing via the cloud. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. So, what do you have to do to be the winning choice? Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Cloud compute spend is another form of technical debt; more on that in a future post).

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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. Additional Isolation Options – Supplementary isolation approaches focused on compute and data Storage considerations. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.