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History is littered with dead startups that designed for scale before they had enough usage to justify it. Within reason, having users knock your site over resulting in failures like the Twitter Fail Whale is a good problem to have.
With that said, you need to be prepared to scale up quickly once you have this problem. There's a reason Facebook counts its users in the billions, and Friendster is a footnote in internet history.
> "So unless your product legitimately only sells to the likes of Google, Facebook, and Apple, you probably don’t need to be 'enterprise ready'" What in the actual fsck? Check out this list of companies ranked by the number of employees they have - https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-o... . Okay, Amazon is #2 - but notice the top 100 doesn't include Apple. There's a lot more to business than FA…
You actually do need to have Enterprise security and authentication features if you intend to sell to Enterprise customers. (SOC2, OAuth, SAML etc)
I am on calls all week with our banking clients about getting SAML/SSO squared away once and for all. We are having a lot more nervous takes around legacy LDAP/AD auth mechanisms these days.
You actually do need to have Enterprise security and authentication features if you intend to sell to Enterprise customers. (SOC2, OAuth, SAML etc)
What is glaringly obvious from this article is that "enterprise" in this industry has lost much of its meaning. It's almost ubiquitous with "medium+", which I think is a self-defeating definition that starts to make sense only when you look at what features are commonly gatekept behind enterprise distributions of software.
Well it depends on what you're selling! Design for what you truly want to sell, and that will end up however it needs to end up, whether that's enterprise or not. This random blogger, and our random comments, can't tell you what you need. It has to emerge from the product development process like a sculpture from a block of marble.
> "So unless your product legitimately only sells to the likes of Google, Facebook, and Apple, you probably don’t need to be 'enterprise ready'" What in the actual fsck? Check out this list of companies ranked by the number of employees they have - https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-o... . Okay, Amazon is #2 - but notice the top 100 doesn't include Apple. There's a lot more to business than FA…
If a company has VPs buying things surely they have some sort of internal vendor management that usually involves accounting/legal/compliance reviews. Being enterprise ready means you have the roles/documentation/process/procedure to answer those questions
I wonder if a recession or bear market environment will quickly make this type of advice – that worked well for the 2010s boom – obsolete in a harsher climate. Might be hard to scale your go-to-market by depending on startups who don't want 'enterprise-ready' features to spend money on your product.