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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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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. The key insight is that one attends to managing technical leverage continuously over time.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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Technical debt is frequently referred to as something you must get rid of. Determine Customer-centric Priorities The 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework fron AWS enumerates the elements of a well-architected development framework.

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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. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

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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.