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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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This seems easy, but it’s not, especially when you’re building a SaaS stack and don’t have the deep technical resources to compete with Apple, Facebook, or Google (you’ll get compared to them whether you like it or not). However, in SaaS, the leaders are those who understand that customer needs will always be evolving.

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

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When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). But that’s just the beginning.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies. Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward.