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Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 3: Scaling into the Cloud and through an Acquisition

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By this point, the platform was doing what it was designed to do. The multi-tenant database had replaced a dozen separate client environments. The data access layer and reporting engine were generating several million dollars a year in revenue. The automation tooling had gotten the data team back on schedule. We'd grown from about a … Continue reading Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 3: Scaling into the Cloud and through an Acquisition

Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 2: The Product Architecture That Powered the Business

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The multi-tenant database solved our scaling problem. Data updates that had previously taken weeks now flowed to subscribing clients automatically. Onboarding went from a technical project to a configuration exercise. The foundation was solid. But a database isn't a product. Our clients weren't paying for a well-designed schema; they were paying for access to healthcare … Continue reading Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 2: The Product Architecture That Powered the Business