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

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In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there.

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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. Engineers may have a hard time unlearning long-held beliefs of attaining perfection in the application.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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Well-Architected Framework scorecard : One of the great advantages AWS has over other cloud providers is what it learns from the Amazon consumer eCommerce business. It’s probably the single biggest technical-debt leverage exercise in modern software history.