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

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Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there. DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp.

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

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Put another way, the user model describes the “who” of what your software does. The simplifying power of the MVC software design pattern makes it tempting to assume that SaaS and web application development is no more than a web-based version of a 3-tier stack. Or just drop us a line. How much should each get? (a

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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Behind the curtain, selling essentially the same software to different users and companies, again and again, relies on a distinct product architecture: secure multi-tenancy. The Fundamental Goal of SaaS tenant Isolation – Know what tenancy is, its types, and key services from a user/customer context. Let’s take a closer look.