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Strategy & Best Practices
10 B2B SaaS Companies That Crushed Their Growth Goals—and How They Did It
SaaS adoption has skyrocketed over the past decade. In 2016, 38 percent of companies used SaaS for at least 80 percent of their software needs...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / June 22, 2020
Strategy & Best Practices
Executive Q&A: How to Move from a Product-Focused Company to a Platform
iCIMS is a leading provider of cloud-based talent acquisition solutions that customers use to attract, engage, and hire employees. Founded in 2000, iC...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppMarket / April 11, 2019
Technology Insights
GraphQL: Escape from the Monolith
As SaaS codebases have grown larger, engineering teams have faced challenges building, testing, and deploying new features. One answer to this problem...By Chris Reid / AppDirect / April 3, 2019
Company & Culture
AppDirect Engineering Interns: Shaping the Future of the Digital Economy
Interesting software engineering challenges are the foundation of a strong engineering team—and a technology company as a whole. They give engineers t...By Gretchen Dukowitz / AppDirect / February 22, 2019
Technology Insights
Stash: A Fast and Scalable Data Store
Why Build a Data Store? When your organization’s long-term goal includes “indexing content from all over the Internet,” you know that fun (and challen...By Adam Demjen / AppDirect / February 19, 2019
Technology Insights
Evolution of the AppDirect Kubernetes Network Infrastructure
At AppDirect, we embraced Kubernetes—an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications&mdas...By Alexandre Gervais / AppDirect / June 7, 2018