Hello SaaS Developers!!! This year has been a great one for our community. Our Slack membership has grown 1.7 times from around 900 to 1540, and our YouTube subscribers have increased over 8 times from 90 to 843. We also have a new newsletter with 1671 subscribers. Throughout the year, we've discussed important engineering topics such as databases, multi-tenancy, networking, developer productivity tools, platform engineering, CI/CD, APIs, security, authentication, authorization, billing, metrics, monitoring, and SLAs, among others. In the coming year, I'd like us to delve even deeper into these topics and continue learning about SaaS development with the community. We'll also explore what's next for SaaS and how we can create this future. While SaaS products have been around for almost two decades, the products we are creating today are very different from those we were building 15 years ago. For example, compare Figma and JIRA, or consider how Github has evolved. And just look at all the video recording and editing SaaS options that are available now. Modern SaaS leverages a wide range of serverless data stores and almost unlimited computing power, takes advantage of high-quality networks that reach every home and pocket, and utilizes the great advances in AI platforms. It is collaborative, real-time, and uses data and algorithms to deliver an exceptional user experience. So as we start 2023 - lets make it the year of the SaaS Developer! Here's to a successful year for us all!

Thanks for bringing this community together @Gwen Shapira kudos to you.

Thanks Gwen 🙏 Happy new year and hope you had refreshing holidays

Great to know that!! Thanks @Gwen Shapira