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

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DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability. When tenant context is built in, from the outset of onboarding, you can evaluate users’ actions directly. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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and onboarding new customers. More quality costs less (formerly known as “The Boy Scout rule) : Martin Fowler, an intellectual hero of mine, prefers to refer to technical debt as cruft – the difference between the current code and how it would ideally be. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform.

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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. to be leveraged across multiple tenants.