3 posts tagged with "SaaS"

Building a Django SaaS application? The infrastructure costs you see are just the tip of the iceberg. Between AWS bills, development hours, maintenance overhead, and hidden costs like downtime and technical debt, most Django SaaS projects spend $750,000 over 5 years—with nearly half of that being completely avoidable waste.

This comprehensive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis reveals where every dollar goes, which costs are hidden, and how AI-powered optimization can cut your 5-year TCO by $325,000 (43%).

Should you use schema-based or shared database multi-tenancy for your Django SaaS? The answer determines your infrastructure costs, migration performance, and data security. At 1,500 tenants, one architecture takes 5+ hours per migration while the other completes in minutes. At 10,000 tenants, the cost difference exceeds $7,000/month.

This data-driven guide analyzes production benchmarks, real-world security incidents, and ROI calculations to help you make the right architectural decision.

When building a production-ready Django SaaS application, you're not just writing features. You're spending weeks wrestling with configuration files, implementing multi-tenancy, integrating payments, and setting up monitoring. This hidden cost—what we call Configuration Debt—consumes an average of 134 hours and $7,638 USD per project.

In this analysis, we'll quantify exactly where this time goes, why it matters, and how AI-powered automation can eliminate it entirely.