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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

“The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work.

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How SaaS Works: Introduction to the Big Picture

How SaaS Works

SaaS is an economic model for software delivery in which centrally hosted software is continuously delivered to an end-user to create a continuous value exchange. Just because someone is a world-class perpetual software license sales phenom does not mean they will thrive selling SaaS (in fact, they often do not).