Turns out that this link ^^^ is far more impressive if I post it stand alone: https://thenile.notion.site/SaaS-Developer-Stack-Checklist-9282e8ccedd54045b0ed901ffd435089

Relevant to recent discussion: The SF Java Users Group has a virtual meetup: What Java developers need to know about JWTs https://meetu.ps/e/LlfSq/B11s/i

We are going to be launching our service soon. This is in a pre-release mode and only for restricted customers (enough we can handle basically). I was wondering if anyone has shared/written about how they went about releasing / announcing it in steps ? what they did right / wrong etc. That would be super interesting for me.

Biggest take aways from the AWS SaaS Factory live stream: • Multi-tenancy is very much a security and access control game. • Multi-tenancy and security are much easier to get right when you are starting than after you have a mess and an incident on your hands. • A lot of decisions around security, compliance and tenant isolation are business requirements (sometimes a bit obscured behind pricing, costs, tiering and capabilities) • In startups, you know from day 1 that your business will experiment with things - tiers, pricing, tenant customization. There are a lot of known design patterns that give you flexibility, start with those. • Israel should be renamed "SaaS Nation"

Anyone here going to Re:Invent?

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My appologies to those who got spam DMs this morning and thank you to everyone who reported the issue. The spammer was banned.

Hey y'all! New on the SaaS Developer Youtube: SLO - Best Practices for Reliable SaaS. @Ken Finnigan, who leads the SLO practice at Workday, shares best practices for aligning engineering and business around reliability expectations. He's been known to answer questions on this Slack, in case you want to discuss the video or have follow up questions.

and our bi-weekly newsletter was sent out to all our members. In case you didn't get it, get SaaS news here: https://hackingsaas.substack.com/p/hacking-saas-8-uptime-tenants-and

I think everyone here is familiar with the 3 multi-tenant models in PG (silo, pool, bridge). Do you know of any benchmark that tries to compare the models in scenarios with large number of tenants?

I found this: https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/postgresql-multi-tenant-usage-performance-impact-test-of-set-search-path_598627 (but it doesn't test against alternatives)

Hey SaaSDevs, @Yeva Byzek published a blog walking through the first MVP product for Infra SaaS. Starting with a fictional company with ETL product, going over the problems they need to solve for the MVP and providing pointers to solutions: Multi-tenant DBs, data plane integration, metrics, billing, authz, etc. Hopefully useful for y'all: https://www.thenile.dev/blog/launch-infra-saas

Hello SaaS Developers, Exciting news! After months of not understanding why we can't get a nice YouTube URL, YouTube deprecated the old naming mechanism and replaced it with handles. I went ahead and grabbed https://www.youtube.com/@saasdevelopers for us. They let us modify the name, so if you have ideas for a better name (this one is descriptive, but a bit long), please share it here.

New on SaaS Community YouTube: I talked to @Felix GV about Venice - the new data store that LinkedIn recently open sourced: We had lots of fun chatting about DB internals, so enjoy this extra nerdy episode. Felix shared a lot of great details about Venice built-in data versioning, partial writes vs CAS, query pushdown and other nifty architecture details.

Thanks for the interview Gwen! Great questions! 🤝

Curious if anyone here is working on SaaS workloads with a roadmap for specific compliance frameworks or industry standards? I'm interested in what tools you used, early stage free tools like ones BoxyHQ has on their awesome-oss-devsec page (thanks @Sama), any of the compliance as a service provides (Drata, Vanta, etc.)

Who has experience with backstage here? Does anyone think of having a backstage plugin as a good vector to getting people to try out your saas?

Product Prioritization Have you ever replayed a scenario in your head, where had you done X instead of Y, the results would have been the exact opposite? Product prioritization works in a similar manner. During the start of each sprint or while working on your product backlog, while it's exciting to list anything and everything that seems an interesting add, realistically, that's not possible. We use different methods to identify which feature gets higher weightage over another. But understanding the core objective of these methods is what differentiates great from good. All your efforts show result, the ultimate goal for any PM is to make the most impact with the least effort. Impact/Effort Similar to ROI, Impact/Effort is the core structure of where you lead the business towards, understanding where the impact lies is decided by understanding the goals to accomplish. So you might be using MoSCoW, RICE or KANO, unless you know the purpose of prioritization, chaos is around the corner. Connect with me on linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/khurramkhalidiqbal

for those doing enterprise sales, what is your wish list that your engineering team should do and should operate with you? 🙂

Is there a best practice to do SaaS distributions in enterprise world 1. Launching your entire cloud stack in customer's cloud account with limited visibility/controls options ? 2. Launching it in a mode where some core services are in your account which processes customer metadata, but rest of services are in customer account ?

Row level security is for customer tenancy. But how do you implement user based tenancy for a particular customer ? I reckon, you need here something like column level security here ?

When do you know you have reached Product Led Growth? When the team starts worrying about how to handle the increasing traffic rather than how to increase the traffic. Connect with me on linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/khurramkhalidiqbal

I recently discovered a pretty cool SaaS for creating short explainer videos. Its a browser plugin, it captures all your clicks and creates a video with "chapters", highlights and text explanations. By far the quickest and easiest tool for video tutorials, and the result looks good. https://www.guidde.com Example of how I used it:

New on the SaaS Developer Youtube, a developer-friendly guide to data contracts with Benn Stancil. Benn is informative, opinionated, no-BS and super funny, so worth watching. Extra thanks to @rmoff who connected me to Benn after I asked him "Why is everyone so excited about those data contracts?"

Happy Thanksgiving to those in the community who celebrate. I hope you get a chance to spend time with your friends and family. I just wanted to let everyone here know how grateful I am for your participation in this community - we started the community to give SaaS developers the opportunity to learn from each other, and this wouldn't be possible without everyone's contributions. I appreciate those who asked questions, those who shared their knowledge and those who regularly read our newsletter. I appreciate those who help me keep this Slack enjoyable by letting me know about spam incidents and of course a lot of appreciation to everyone who contributed their time and expertise to our YouTube channel - both those who participated in the recordings and those who pointed me to interesting topics and speakers. Especially these days with Twitter's future being a bit uncertain, I thank you all for making this community special and this Slack a good place for like-minded people to get together.

Hello everyone! Just in case you missed it. We're doing a survey on developer velocity and would appreciate your feedback. As Developer Velocity is becoming a hot topic these days. We’re looking to understand how your development team is improving developer velocity in your company. The survey won’t take more than 1 minutes to complete. It’s open till Mid December and we’ll publish the results in early January 2023. Please use the link here to complete the survey. Thanks very much in advance!

I thought this was a good post talking about building a data integration platform! Some good discussion around code generation, schedulers, how to scale API coverage. https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/building-cloudquery

I just scheduled the newsletter for tomorrow morning (full of re:invent news, what else?) and discovered that Hacking SaaS now has exactly 1600 subscribers. How cool is that?