15: Lessons in Scaling SaaS

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 10 a.m.

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This week Ben is on vacation and Derrick is here to share some fresh knowledge behind the scenes at Drip. They\\u2019re experimenting at Drip with how to scale the system to handle more customers and what changes are needed to make the architecture support all their customers and future large customers in the sales pipeline. Derrick goes over his team\\u2019s recent brainstorming session and plans to repeat the exercise for more subsystems at Drip.

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Today\\u2019s Topics Include:

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The many seasons of scaling a SaaS business
\\nStarting with simplistic architecture
\\nArriving at bottlenecks and incremental evolution of the system
\\nHow to have brainstorming sessions with engineers
\\nReevaluating assumptions and tradeoffs

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