SaaS on the rise or "Why carriers have to make our lives miserable"

Giving a basic introduction into the birth of shipcloud.io and what the challenges were in implementing a SaaS system that's providing a single basic api for our customers.

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1. SaaS on the rise „Why carriers have to make our lives miserable“
2. A War Story
4. Quick Survey
5. André Cedik @andrecedik E-Commerce Consultant & Ruby Developer
7. „Work for clients in order to do our own stuff“
10. „shipcloud is your one stop for sending packages in Europe“
13. What is SaaS ?
14. What are cloud services?
15. • Outsourcing of IT resources What are cloud services? • Running „in the cloud“
16. • Different forms of services ‣ Infrastructure (IaaS) ‣ Network, storage, virtualization … ‣ Manual configuration, management and updates of components What are cloud services?
17. • Different forms of services ‣ Platform (PaaS) ‣ Infrastructure + App platform ‣ Almost no configuration ‣ Automatic updates What are cloud services?
18. • Different forms of services ‣ Software (SaaS) ‣ Everything is managed What are cloud services?
19. • No (hardware / software) setup / maintenance Cloud Services Pros • Clear price structure
22. • Easily scalable (pay-as-you-go) Cloud Services Pros • Good choice for start ups • Small barrier to start
23. • Reachable from everywhere in the world Cloud Services Pros • You just need a modern web browser
24. • Dependency on provider Cloud Services Cons
26. Developer Centric SaaS
27. W00t?
28. • Make stuff easier for developers Developer Centric SaaS • Webservices based on a simple API
29. Why carriers have to make our lives miserable
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45. Who needs an API?
51. http://railsgirls.com/hamburg
52. Thanks! @andrecedik shipcloud.io webionate.de
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