The golden age of SaaS

David Mytton
4 min readSep 6, 2016

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There’s no longer any good reason to run your own software. Everything you need to run your business is available as a service.

Even core software components like databases and queues are now available through IaaS like Amazon’s RDS and Google’s pub/sub.

When you buy something as a service, it will be more regularly updated and more secure than anything you can build or run yourself. There only…

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David Mytton

Co-founder https://console.dev — the best tools for developers. Researching sustainable computing at Uptime Institute. https://davidmytton.blog