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The secret to raising pre-seed moneyBoris has an impressive track record, with over three decades of experience in Silicon Valley. He's worn many hats, from serial entrepreneur to technologist and now an angel investor. Boris was a founding member of two unicorn startups, and he's here to share his wisdom with us. (Laurence Cohen, CEO of Raion)Read More
Building Your Own Solution for SaaS Capacity ManagementA customer-centric approach to SaaS, Part 4 — In my previous blog post, I discussed the need for SaaS systems to manage load on their system in a way that’s fair for all their tenants. I went over the big challenge of noisy neighbors and how difficult it can be to solve these problems at...Read More
Are You Fair to Your SaaS Neighbor?A customer-centric approach to SaaS, Part 3 In my previous two blogs posts, I discussed the reasons your business must have visibility into the tenants on your SaaS applications. …
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Your (SaaS) Business is Your Tenant!A customer-centric approach to SaaS, Part 2 In my first blog post, I discussed the importance of being tenant-aware — that is, looking at your SaaS business from the perspective of each tenant. We dove into the technology and methodology of tracking tenants with metrics and quickly...Read More
Is Your SaaS Product “Tenant-Aware”?A customer-centric approach to SaaS, Part I THE PROBLEM Back in 2010, when I was working at a small startup with a tiny engineering team, I found myself in charge of building a SaaS version of our product, which had previously only been available in an on-premise version. This was…
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Making Single Page Applications (SPA) fasterSingle Page Applications (SPA) have been one of the major new architectural shifts for websites. This has enabled impressive site look and feel, and reduced the number of bytes delivered to the end users. Come to this talk and learn how to get a top performing SPA.Read More
Planning for Failure with APMIf you are running mission-critical applications and do not have a strategy to deal with failure, you are putting your whole organization at risk.Read More
Life After Sharding: Monitoring and Managing a Complex Data CloudData systems have struggled to keep up with the rapid growth of application data. As a result, many have turned to sharding their data as a solution.Read More
A Short History of PostgresImplementation of the Postgres DBMS began in 1986. The initial concepts for the system were presented in [STON86] and the definition of the initial data model appeared in [ROWE87]. The design of the rule system at that time was described in [STON87a].Read More