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PayFac-as-a-Service vs Full Payment Facilitation: A Developer’s Guide

USIO

Or should you partner with a PayFac-as-a-Service provider? We’re going to walk through the differences between going full PayFac and using PayFac-as-a-Service (PFaaS), and why the right decision could be the difference between 6 months of smooth growth—or 18 months of regulatory nightmares. Abstracted away. You focus on product.

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SaaS Platform Explainer: Definition, Examples, and How to Grow in the Software as a Service Industry

Stax

In this article, we’ll break down what a SaaS platform is, highlight real-world examples, and explore key strategies to succeed in the fast-moving software-as-a-service industry. A SaaS platform is cloud-based software that delivers tools, features, and services over the internetno downloads or hardware required.

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

The Unit Economics That VCs Dream About Replit’s financial metrics tell a story of sustainable, capital-efficient growth: Revenue Model Evolution 2022-2023 : Subscription-heavy ($7-40/month plans) 2024-2025 : Usage-based pricing for AI agents Future : Marketplace fees, enterprise licenses, compute services Customer Expansion Individual Developers (..)

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Global AI Race: Top 7 Countries Leading Full-Stack AI in 2025

How To Buy Saas

MLOps/DevOps: Tools to version, monitor, and deploy models (CI/CD for AI). This fuels a robust ecosystem of AI chips (Nvidia, AMD), cloud AI services (AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI, Google Cloud AI), and SaaS integration (Salesforce Einstein, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Adobe Firefly). Core ML Models: Algorithms and model training (e.g.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Hold teams accountable using service level objectives (SLOs).

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The $4.5B Board Meeting: Inside Snowflake’s AI Transformation and the CEO Who Bets His Company on Their Platform

SaaStr

Without an internal champion whose future is tied to yours, you’re just a vendor getting lip service. DevOps Engineers may see the most dramatic change. AI will dramatically reshape technical roles : The next 18 months (or less) will see more change in data engineering and DevOps than the previous four years combined.

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Top Tools for Monitoring API Performance

Teamgate

By enabling smooth communication between microservices, Middleware centralizes logging and monitoring across services, allowing teams to detect and resolve issues more efficiently. James Davidson, DevOps Lead at TechFlow, shared his experience: “Uptrace has transformed how we monitor our microservices. “Middleware.io

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