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QCon London: Mistakes People Make Building SaaS Software

Jon Topper, AWS Ambassador and founder of The Scale Factory, shared key insights at QCon London 2025 on building effective SaaS solutions. He highlighted pitfalls, stressing the importance of multi-tenancy from day one, automating tenant provisioning, and planning disaster recovery. Topper encouraged leveraging community wisdom to avoid costly mistakes and implement secure, scalable architectures.

By Matt Saunders

Lessons Learned from Growing an Engineering Organization

As their organization grew, Thiago Ghisi's work as director of engineering shifted from being hands-on in emergencies to designing frameworks and delegating decisions. He suggested treating changes as experiments, documenting reorganizations, and using a wave-based communication approach to gather feedback, ensuring people feel heard and invested.

By Ben Linders

QCon London 2025: Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries

At QCon London 2025, Teena Idnani from Microsoft addressed the rise of multi-cloud adoption, revealing that 89% of organizations embrace this strategy. Using the fictional FinBank, she showcased practical strategies to overcome latency, resilience, event ordering, and duplication challenges, emphasizing the importance of security, observability, and continuous team education.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Presentation: Comprehensive Approaches to Software Supply Chain Security

Mykhailo Brodskyi discusses critical software supply chain security risk categories relevant to FinTech and explains effective mitigation strategies. Drawing from real project case studies, he shares insights to protect systems from vulnerabilities and ensure platform security and resilience. Demo: third-party library risk mitigation through software bill of materials generation and analysis.

By Mykhailo Brodskyi

Article: Shadow Table Strategy for Seamless Service Extractions and Data Migrations

The shadow table strategy creates a synchronized duplicate of the data that keeps the production system fully operational during changes, enabling zero-downtime migrations. The approach supports diverse scenarios - including database migrations, microservices extractions, and incremental schema refactoring - that update live systems safely and progressively.

By Apoorv Mittal

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