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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Lockdown and the pandemic, to paraphrase Mike Tyson , have punched us in the face with Everything-as-a-Service. In the face of this sudden acceleration of SaaS-ification, DevOps need to do more to accelerate the transition. It’s increasingly impossible to imagine a SaaS business without a firm commitment to DevOps thinking.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. Corey works with his customers on reducing their AWS bills, and he’s seen large numbers of cloud architectures in practice, so I think he’s a pretty good source on this.

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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

Baremetrics

You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. But eventually you need to decide what stage your business is in. Do you think that there are 10x or 100x opportunities for your business ahead? And… It’s not fun.

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

CloudGeometry

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

Finally, you need to do it quickly, because if you’re not competitive, your customers can and will take their business elsewhere. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp. You’re going to have to experiment. Let’s be realistic.

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User Model: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 1

CloudGeometry

First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. That makes for a vast landscape of pitfalls in the search for common ground between business and architecture. Part 1: User Model & Onboarding If you have a business model, you have put together ideas about users. Success in spite of these obstacles?

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Frontegg Announces $5M Seed Round for First of Its Kind SaaS-as-a-Service Platform Aimed at Accelerating Global SaaS Innovation

Frontegg

As a result, Frontegg’s “SaaS Essentials” as a Service platform empowers organizations of all sizes to accelerate the delivery and the on-going enhancements of enterprise-grade SaaS applications. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. About Frontegg. More at www.frontegg.com , Twitter , LinkedIn , GitHub.