Most business owners assume their application is backed up. Far fewer can say how much data they would lose if the database failed this afternoon, how long it would take to get back online, or whether anyone has ever restored from those backups to check that t...
Ask three developers where your application should run and you may hear three answers: serverless, containers, or a plain virtual server. All three ca...
Every business application eventually has to answer the same question: who is allowed to see and do what? The answer shapes the database, the screens,...
Most software projects now include an API, whether or not anyone asked for one by name. Your mobile app needs it to talk to your servers. Your account...
The worst way to learn that your application is down is an email from a customer. It is common in small companies, because nobody was assigned to watc...
Hosting is often decided late and then lived with for years. Yet the choice sets who patches the servers, who restores the database after a mistake, w...
Most founders can describe their core feature in one sentence. Far fewer can list everything else a SaaS product needs before a stranger will pay for...
Every change to live software carries some risk. A new checkout step, a pricing update or a security patch all alter a system that customers are using...
Every SaaS product has to answer one structural question early: when hundreds of customers use the same application, where does each customer's data l...
Many SaaS founders plan billing as a single task: "add Stripe." Then a customer upgrades mid-month, a card fails on renewal, and a buyer in Texas or M...
Most SaaS products lose new customers quietly. Someone signs up, looks at an empty dashboard, clicks around for a few minutes and never returns. Nobod...
Most SaaS founders find out what their product cannot tell them at the worst possible moment. An investor asks for churn, or a pricing change needs ev...
