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Much of the value of a SAAS/Cloud service is that the operational costs are so reduced. We talk a lot here about the explosion in complexity in tech (front end

Much of the value of a SAAS/Cloud service is that the operational costs are so reduced. We talk a lot here about the explosion in complexity in tech (front end stacks, different OSs, security, mobile+desktop etc.) but rarely about how to really manage them. SAAS services are typically wildly, crazily cheaper than hiring people to either do the services or to support an internally setup and managed application to do the same.

cormacrelf 9y ago
You're so right. Especially at the small-scale end, it's much cheaper to build a buggy and fragile product with a database you can access any time and fix stuff for your users. Instead of hiring a bigger team with the QA discipline to send nearly-perfect releases out into the wild, the hacked-together SaaS can be built with 10x fewer developers and one DBA. That's been true since at least 2005.