Things SaaS Builders Keep Getting Wrong

Building, deploying, and operating software is hard, and that goes double when you're building SaaS. We'll look at the ways in which teams building this type of software often unintentionally make life difficult for themselves, and suggest how that can be avoided, through good architecture, DevOps practices, and operations.

Speaker

Jon Topper

Founder @The Scale Factory, an Award Winning AWS Partner, AWS Ambassador

Jon Topper is the founder of The Scale Factory, an award-winning AWS partner, now part of Ten10. His team of experts help SaaS companies, and other businesses, get more out of their cloud platforms.

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Date

Tuesday Apr 8 / 02:45PM BST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Topics

cloud SaaS DevOps

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