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IaaS PaaS SaaS: Mastering The 3 Different Cloud Service Models

How To Buy Saas

This helps you cut down on costly upfront capital investments in hardware and software and save on recurring maintenance fees. Provide easy, fast, and cost-effective solutions to manage workload without having to deploy in-house hardware or software. IaaS services allow you to opt for only what you require and pay accordingly.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So our initial bet was performance could make a big difference. Of course, the software, we need to build something, which is very different in term of performance. We have to build everything from scratch in software to be able to have high availability. So the first version of the software had zero high availability at all.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

I had done some software consulting. It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. So we said, “Hey, why don’t we do that with enterprise software?”

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

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 Single-Tenant architecture that dedicates specific software and infrastructure services to a single customer (in many ways similar to the world before cloud).