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Investing in Upstash

Andreessen Horowitz

By that, we mean services that scale to zero, are globally distributed, and scale up based on demand. The benefit is that each service can scale up and down independently, but it requires an elastic caching or queuing mechanism to buffer the interactions between services.

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

CloudGeometry

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

CloudGeometry

Part 1: User Model & Onboarding If you have a business model, you have put together ideas about users. Let’s do that by viewing that next level through the lens of onboarding. Onboarding in SaaS is an end-to-end process. Onboarding operationalizes your user model by expressing it through tenant context.

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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. From these conversations, I learned a ton about what devs are looking for in a software website, in developer documentation, in onboarding, and even in sales interactions.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. When I first joined Uber, I was actually hired as a DevOps manager, which was kind of funny in the sense that I literally didn’t know what DevOps was. One of the things I found as I’m desperately Googling “What is DevOps?”, product called Yahoo!

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Investors Predict What’s Next In Identity and Access Management

OpenView Labs

Identity and access management has always been an area of interest for enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) investors. To win here, it’s really all about creating a repeatable process to onboard and integrate new apps to a singular engine which can automatically grant and set expiration dates for permissions. 406 Ventures. .

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A Letter From Our CEO: Frontegg’s Funding Round

Frontegg

A few weeks later, we were already running a beta version of the first product capability-as-a-service for a design partner. Can you afford to build endless subscription tier enforcement mechanisms, freemium support, trial support, self-service administration, onboarding forms, and different signup methods?