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

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Billing events and unit metrics The variable cost model of cloud platforms has forever changed how compute resources are bought and paid for and consumed. When thinking about billing events, the challenge is to construct a set of value events that provides your customers a choice of price points.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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Determine Customer-centric Priorities The 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework fron AWS enumerates the elements of a well-architected development framework. This is where to find the opportunities where you can search for architectural patterns and events.

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

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Monitoring technology such as Prometheus can do much of this for you, aggregating event and time-series data for actionable monitoring, metrics, trending and diagnostics. Finally, translating logging into insights requires iteration.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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There’s no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture, so practical strategies of building such frameworks will vary. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is one such approach that helps adopt architectural best practices (whether or not you run on AWS) and adapt continuously.