Dear Reader,
Welcome to the 98th edition of the good reads newsletter by Malpani Ventures. Sharing your weekly dose of articles for this weekend’s reading!
The push from freemium to premium
Witness a complete product breakdown of Duolingo’s monetization design.
5 monetization insights from the freemium user experience.
A compelling piece to use a range of places across the architecture to trigger the paywall. Lean into user psychology. Ensure your premium service makes them feel like they’re jumping the queue.
The story of Amplitude’s new self-service plan
Learn how Amplitude structured their self-service plan.
5 Learnings from Amplitude’s journey of moving towards a ‘platform’ positioning.
Understand why it is the marketing and product team’s goal to make sure that the self-serve customer base doesn’t churn.
How Amazon S3 Achieves 99.999999999% Durability
An interesting read on how Amazon made durability a part of the architecture and their engineering culture.
A 5-Step breakdown of Amazon’s Durability fundamentals.
Amazon S3 offers 11 nines of durability - 99.999999999%.
Put another way, a single data object out of 10 thousand objects might get lost in 10 million years.
Until next time!