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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. In many circumstances, this becomes a debate between product managers and developers.

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

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When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. Feature value: a function of time investment of users and customers The set of problems that your SaaS solves won’t survive long in the digital age if all it does is cut prices.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.