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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. The question of who does what in the user model is a great starting point.

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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. 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). An alternative: the Cloud Container Solutions Cloud Native Maturity Matrix. Containers!