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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. Either way, focus your attention on the most important part of your architecture: how well does it serve the goals of your business?

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned as we build full-stack SaaS across industries and user cases, it’s this: SaaS is a 3-sided balancing act: feature agility; compliance readiness; and return on infrastructure investment. And without a focus on features and customers, spending money on infrastructure alone won’t cut it.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

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Feature value: a function of time investment of users and customers The set of problems that your SaaS solves won’t survive long in the digital age if all it does is cut prices. This has consequences both for the cost of onboarding a customer, as well as the cost of maintaining the customer during the discovery period.