2 posts tagged with "Cloud"

Last quarter, our CFO called me into an unexpected meeting. "Our AWS bill has doubled in the past year," she said, sliding a chart across the table. "We need to get this under control without slowing down product development."

This wasn't a unique situation. Across the industry, companies are facing the same challenge: cloud costs are spiraling upward while budgets are tightening. The days of treating cloud resources as essentially unlimited are over.

After three months of focused effort, we reduced our cloud spend by 42% without compromising performance or reliability. In this post, I'll share the strategies, tools, and architectural patterns that worked for us, along with the hard-earned lessons from approaches that didn't.

When I launched my first SaaS product back in 2018, I made almost every architectural mistake possible. We chose the wrong database, overengineered our infrastructure, and underestimated the complexity of multi-tenancy. The result? Countless late nights debugging production issues and a codebase that became increasingly difficult to evolve.

Fast forward to today, and I've helped build and scale several successful SaaS platforms. The landscape has changed dramatically in just a few years—new tools, platforms, and patterns have emerged that make building scalable SaaS applications more accessible than ever.

In this post, I'll share the hard-won lessons and current best practices for building a SaaS that can scale from your first customer to your first thousand, without requiring a complete rewrite along the way.