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Xero’s cloud migration - The need for speed

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Show Notes

In 2014 Xero was experiencing exponential customer growth. But they were about to hit a wall.

Unless they did something drastic, and soon, they would be unable to continue to scale their platform to handle new customers.

This episode tells the story of probably the largest cloud migration undertaken by a SaaS company in NZ.

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