3 Tips for SaaS Optimization
June 7, 2013
Grazed from dZone. Author: Omri Erel.
I talk a lot about various business aspects of SaaS, and I talk about marketing and I even recommend SaaS solutions on a regular basis. But, I think it’s about time I tap my inner software guy, and talk about SaaS optimization today. Unlike some of these articles, this is intended more for SaaS creators than consumers, and the purpose here is to recommend some basic design practices that make it more efficient, expedient and all around more effective.
SaaS optimization is important, and it sounds like something that’d be very complicated. Well, it doesn’t need to be. I will assume you know what a few terms are, going into this, so for my non-designer readers, I apologize for the small amount of jargon contained herein…
So, the first problem SaaS has is, how much of the processing is done by the local client, and how much processing is handled by the cloud infrastructure on the other side? While cloud computing means that you can offload all the computing tasks from the client to the server, this isn’t entirely, completely necessary. If you offload the smaller calculations and other such things to dynamic HTML5 or Java, you can spare load and sync times with the PHP or other such server platform…
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