Building a Cloud-Native SaaS Product The Hard Way

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Explains concrete tradeoffs: automation for DNS, SSL, email, provisioning and billing; choices between Kubernetes + Knative, Lambda/functions, containers or metal based on cost and workload; multi-tenancy options like single-schema, schema-per-tenant, DB-per-tenant and full-instance isolation with examples (10,000 customers vs millions); use of Stripe/Reco rly, Datadog, Atlas; recommends which components to manage vs buy and shows how isolation, cost and operability actually play out in production.

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1. 0:00Introduction to SaaS challenges
2. 1:08Core principles of SaaS products
3. 2:34Automating cloud resource provisioning
4. 3:58Managing SaaS back-office operations
5. 5:02Recurring billing and subscriptions
6. 6:08Multi-tenancy models explained
7. 9:00Isolation vs density trade-offs
8. 11:26Hybrid multi-tenancy approach
9. 12:28Cloud services integration strategies
10. 13:11Choosing compute deployment models
11. 15:00Managed vs self-hosted services
12. 16:28Open source SaaS paradigm shift
13. 18:56Q&A and closing remarks

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