Designing an Engineering org for SaaS & on-prem Delivery Models

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Company adds private DNS containerized via Docker to its SaaS, keeping one C++ codebase deployed both as a managed global service (about 25 PoPs global) and as versioned on‑prem containers. Engineering creates a release engineering team, formalizes CI/CD, artifact and documentation ownership, and uses gap‑analysis, proximity (frog/owl/eagle) and Goldilocks role templates to redistribute work. Result: slower code turnaround but fewer divergent branches, clearer hiring for specialists, concrete gaps filled (e.g., artifacts and docs) and a reproducible path to ship reliable versioned containers.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:30About NS1
3. 1:50Customer base
4. 2:10SAS to Software
5. 3:19Why DNS
6. 4:12Why SaaS
7. 5:03AWS Reinvent
8. 5:37Private DNS
9. 5:59Organizational Shifts
10. 6:22Product Unification
11. 7:52Technology Shift
12. 10:00Evolution
13. 10:39Release Engineering
14. 11:43Platform Ownership
15. 13:21Continuous Delivery vs Version Releases
16. 15:14Process
17. 19:11Takeaways
18. 20:38Templates
19. 21:13Structure Methods
20. 21:43Optimize Roles
21. 22:04Blank Templates
22. 22:14Gap Analysis Templates
23. 22:25Gap Analysis Overview
24. 23:01Tasks Responsibilities
25. 23:59Visual Indicators
26. 24:45Example Network Operations
27. 25:46Before After Concepts
28. 26:12Release Engineering Group
29. 27:08Examples
30. 27:58Gaps
31. 28:09Roles
32. 28:43Quantification
33. 29:14Three vs Two
34. 29:53Gap Exercises
35. 30:26Proximity Exercises
36. 31:04Frog Owl Eagle
37. 31:45No Frog
38. 32:35Team Members
39. 32:51Goldilocks Exercise
40. 33:49These are templates
41. 34:18Dont worry too much
42. 34:29Three things we think about
43. 35:04What you want to teach
44. 35:36Filling in roles
45. 36:06Templates instructions
46. 36:26QA

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