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

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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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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned as we build full-stack SaaS across industries and user cases, it’s this: SaaS is a 3-sided balancing act: feature agility; compliance readiness; and return on infrastructure investment. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp. Let’s be realistic.

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

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DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability. State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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The Fundamental Goal of SaaS tenant Isolation – Know what tenancy is, its types, and key services from a user/customer context. A tenant is the set of application services dedicated to a single specific set of users and customers. It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. Let’s take a closer look.