SaaS for Developers

Apr 04 2024 42 ep. 40 mins 19

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Learn what every engineer should know about building and scaling SaaS products from leaders who built world-class SaaS. We will share lessons learned, advice, tips, and great stories. This podcast is part of the SaaS community. You can also join our Slack https://launchpass.com/all-about-saas and follow our Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZuLNqvV4oUMVyNq70mFF0g

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Optimizing Cloud Costs for SaaS Startups

Apr 04 2024 29 mins

You can't manage what you don't measure, and this includes your cloud costs. But how detailed should this measurement be? And how will the data translate into impact? I sat down with Adam Shugar, co-founder and CTO of Dashdive, to discuss his approach to cloud costs. He shared his advice, not only on cost cutting but also technology, growing a startup, the importance of co

SaaS: More than just a business model

Jan 29 2024 52 mins

Bill Tarr has the most interesting job in the world. He and his team of SaaS Evangelists at the AWS SaaS Factory work with companies large and small to help them build SaaS on AWS. In this conversation, we discuss the different ways technology and business interact when building SaaS - from cool technical options available only to SaaS companies to the importance of knowing the c

Building Streaming on S3

Jan 03 2024 58 mins

Ryan Worl, co-founder and CTO of WarpStream, is on a mission to re-engineer fundamental infrastructure on top of S3. Starting with metrics at Uber, continuing with Husky - DataDog's platform for events, logs and everything except metrics and then... Ryan thought "it will be cool to re-build Kafka on S3", reached out to other developers to hear their thoughts... and en

Kora: Cloud Native Platform for Kafka

Nov 27 2023 42 mins

We invited Anna Povzner, director of engineering at Confluent, to the show to discuss Kora. Kora is a Cloud Native platform based on Apache Kafka, which her team at Confluent built. Anna and her team recently published a paper about Kora in VLDB 2023, and it won the industry's best paper award. Kora VLDB paper: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf In our convers

Cell Based Architecture for Early Stage SaaS

Nov 16 2023 55 mins

In the last year or two I started hearing a lot about cell-based architectures. Usually in the form of “We had a lot of issues scaling our infrastructure, but then we moved to cell-based architectures” and “I wish I’ve learned about cell based architectures earlier, it would have saved me a lot of pain”. As a result, I’ve wanted to share knowledge about cell-based archi

Building a Serverless Streaming Platform

Nov 13 2023 42 mins

Krishna Raman has many years of experience building platforms for developers. Now he's applying this experience at Delta Streams to build a serverless platform for stream processing in SQL. In our conversation, we discussed the serverless developer experience, some of the secret sauce behind Delta Stream's Flink Operator, how to deliver a bring-your-own-account SaaS, K8s

Never Rewrite! And other advice for SaaS Developers

Aug 31 2023 36 mins

You are a founding engineer at a SaaS startup. You built the MVP, and to everyone's great delight - usage is picking up. What's next? In this episode, Jeffrey shares how a messy MVP can gradually evolve into a scalable SaaS product. We discuss the critical design decisions engineers have to make in the early days of building the product: Tabs or spaces, pooled tenants or

The Wonders of Postgres Logical Decoding Messages

Aug 28 2023 40 mins

Did you know that Postgres that lets you write data that you can’t query? Events that will show up in the write-ahead log (WAL) of the database but not in any table. Gunnar Morling, senior staff engineer at Decodable and world expert on change data capture, walks us through data capture basics, this not-new but little-known feature, and dives into three key use cases (my favori

Postgres, Performance and Rails

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Andrew Atkinson took a Rails web application that was struggling with load, and optimized it to handle over 9000 HTTP requests per second with an average latency of 35ms end to end. Handling a much higher load, on a smaller RDS instance, with lower latencies. He then shared his expertise by writing a book: "High-Performance Postgres with Rails." Andrew and I discussed Po

Trends in Observability and Alerting

Aug 21 2023 36 mins

Ensuring your production system is well-behaved is table stakes for any SaaS. The space around monitoring and alerting is complex and moving fast, so it is too easy to end up with results that are worse than useless. Alert fatigue is real, and developers must learn to avoid this. Shahar and Tal, founders of Keep and active SaaS Developer community members, joined me to discuss -