While building SaaS business, we all want to be fast to launch our product and keep iterating as the customers suggest. So, we keep updating the software/app being built and keep tweaking it. Now, after some time, product reaches a stage when we are confident that we have found a good product-market fit and now it’s time to think of scale. BUT then suddenly, we find that our mind and team is ready to scale but the software/app we are building has many issues like scalability, security, dirty code, un-scalable servers, lack of agility in app and many more. So, now after so much hard work, we were about to go and acquire the market but because our product was not built with basics in mind, our speed slows down. We have to again slow down to fix the whole architecture. We can save lot of time and energy using Twelve-Factor App Methodology. The Twelve-Factor App is a methodology for building Software-as-a-Service that encourages building applications in a way that inherently makes them more stable, secure, failure-safe, easier to measure, and easier to reason about. It is a very effective way to build scalable, manageable applications.

12 Factor SaaS App

Build scalable, stable, secure and failure-safe SAAS apps

Build scalable, stable, secure and failure-safe SAAS apps