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It's insane that they had to that rather than giving their On-Prem version the ability to scale the way you need a SaaS service to scale. Turning your SaaS Ops
by x3n0ph3n3 6y ago
It's insane that they had to that rather than giving their On-Prem version the ability to scale the way you need a SaaS service to scale. Turning your SaaS Ops team into an On-Prem customer is a great way to dog-food your product.
- HarveyKandola 6y agoIt's not easy unless you begin with that mind-set from day one. In fact, it gets tricky as you have "location-flagged" functionality depending upon Cloud or Self-hosted. We did this from scratch @ Documize by making (bold?) choices around deployment/runtime and database schema design for both SaaS and self-hosted "products": - run the exact same binary (we used Golang) - share/use the exact same database schema - data migration process the same for schema changes - support multi-tenanting: "enterprise" self-hosted also multi-tenanting so different teams/departments internally get different URLs - use the same "build" process to compile and ship Probably plenty more I could tell you!
- x3n0ph3n3 6y agoI know it's not easy, but it's the only viable path form my experience. I ended up doing something similar, but taking our SaaS product and packaging it in a way that it could be run On-Prem. There was a really interesting feedback cycle where we wanted to make the On-Prem and SaaS deployments work as similarly as possible.
- jeff_redradish 6y agoAtlassian's Cloud products were initially (~2009) just the Server products with a few plugins bolted on to unify the UI, deployed in bulk. Over time the backends diverged, and here we are.