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The Guide To Becoming Enterprise Ready For SaaS Businesses

tl;dr: "Crossing the Enterprise Chasm" is an inevitable transition every B2B SaaS company has to make when they start selling to enterprises. Although it's a necessary step, moving upmarket is fraught with challenges — building enterprise features takes a ton of capital, it requires aggressive prioritizations, and engineers generally don't like building enterprise features. Here's a guide for product and engineering leaders on making their SaaS apps Enterprise Ready.

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How I Computer In 2024

- Jon Seager tl;dr: “I’m always fascinated to see how people use their computers - which applications they choose, how they set up their desktop environments and even how their screens are laid out on their desk. I’ve learned some great tricks from friends and colleagues over the years, so I thought I’d write up how I use my machines in 2024.”

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How I Computer In 2024

- Jon Seager tl;dr: “I’m always fascinated to see how people use their computers - which applications they choose, how they set up their desktop environments and even how their screens are laid out on their desk. I’ve learned some great tricks from friends and colleagues over the years, so I thought I’d write up how I use my machines in 2024.”

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Multi-Tenant vs. Single-Tenant IDaaS Solutions

- Daniel DeGroff tl;dr: “The choice depends on your business model and requirements. Regulatory compliance, security, data management, and upgrade control are important considerations that will ultimately define the most effective solution for your company. Which trade-offs are you willing and able to make? Read some of the most important considerations below and decide which approach fits your business.”

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How To Add An Onboarding Flow For Your Application

- Roy Anger tl;dr: Streamline your app's onboarding with Clerk’s customizable session tokens, publicMetadata, and Next.js Middleware. Implement a seamless experience with minimal code.

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The Web's Clipboard, And How It Stores Data Of Different Types

- Alex Harri tl;dr: “I recently decided to unveil the mystery that is the clipboard and wrote this post using my learnings. We'll focus on the web clipboard and its APIs, though we'll also touch on how it interacts with operating system clipboards.”

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The ROI Comparison Of Building SSO And SCIM vs. Using A Pre-built Solution

- Min Kim Kristopher Hughes tl;dr: For high-growth startups, time is the single most important resource. It’s so important that months of delay in shipping SSO and SCIM can result in a potential revenue loss of $7.95M compared to using a pre-built solution. The ROI difference is staggering too: 9% for a homegrown solution vs. 1,954% for a pre-built one. This article explains the methodologies used to calculate these numbers.

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Learn What Role Based Access Control Is And How To Use It To Simplify Permission Management Within Organizations

- Brian Morrison tl;dr: Managing permissions in large SaaS applications can be a nightmare. Providing team owners a way to grant functionality to users in a simplified way can be the difference between companies purchasing your software or going with a competitor. Clerk provides you with a way to build this functionality with minimal effort.

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Build Vs Buy Part I: Complexities Of Building SSO And SCIM In-House

- Min Kim Amit Bhojraj tl;dr: One of the pitfalls of building SSO and SCIM from scratch is the ongoing engineering investment required to scale your solution — supporting more IdPs, dealing with expiring SAML certificates, and standardizing onboarding fragmentation. And this is after spending 3-6 months to develop the initial solution for a handful of providers. When factoring in feature expansion (domain verification, JIT provisioning, custom-mapped attributes, IdP role assignment), which is different from work related to maintenance and scalability, the total cost of ownership multiplies significantly.

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Benchmarking OpenAI Models For Automated Error Resolution

- Reilly Oldham tl;dr: AI continues to offer new possibilities in code generation and debugging. Raygun looked into LLMs’ current capabilities and their implications for the future of development practices. Interested? Read the study to see how each of the OpenAI models handled software errors.

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