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Should you build a software as a service (SaaS) product?

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A world-class SaaS product will transform your industry. Are you ready to build it? By investing in the development of a SaaS product, you’re investing in the future of business software. When you monetize your product through some form of a subscription business model, you open your product up to SMBs that couldn’t previously afford a software solution. Do you have large enterprise customers? Large companies are subscribing to SaaS products at record rates because enterprise IT departments have realized SaaS products can be as secure or more secure than software hosted on-premise. Established behemoths and startups alike are building cloud-based SaaS products for every business role and industry vertical. Whether you’re building a new SaaS application from the ground up or migrating your on-premise architecture to a multi-tenant SaaS architecture, you’ll save on cloud infrastructure and maintenance costs when your SaaS application is complete. You’ll also see productivity improve...

4 PROS ON HOW TO BUILD A CAREER IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

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“Any idiot can build a bridge, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.” That good engineers make things that work, but don't see a need to over-engineer them — relates specifically to structural engineering, but it’s also a great fit for  software engineering . Like its built-environment cousin, software engineering requires stripping away all unnecessary clutter to create the smoothest-running, most intuitive digital solution possible. That encompasses a ton: the webpage you’re reading right now, the web browser you launched to do so, the operating system that allowed it, the content management system that hosts it. Each one of those software applications — and the entirety of the broader digital environment, really — has undergone design, testing, maintenance, installation, configuration, programming (more on that later). In a word, engineering. Given its scope and high technical bar, software engineer...