Kai Inkinen Co-Founder – Aito.ai Kai is a specialist in software architecture and development, technical architecture, continuous deployment and version control. Kimmo Brunfeldt Head of Customer Experience – Aito.ai Kimmo is a business-focused developer who likes people, design, open source, creative concepts, and different cultures without forgetting tiny perfect details. Co-founder of Alvar Carto.

1. How to build & run
a SaaS with a team
of two
KAI INKINEN & KIMMO BRUNFELDT

2. Kimmo Brunfeldt
Head of CX
Kai Inkinen
Co-Founder

3. Aito is
machine learning
as a service

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5. Challenges
• Security and isolation are crucial
• End user behaviour is uncontrollable
• People expect platforms to "just scale"
• Tying the technical solution to the business model

6. "Don't over-engineer"

7. Q1 Q2 Q3
100
30
10
Users

8. Q1 Q2 Q3
1 000 000
300 000
100 000
API Requests
10 000 a month / customer on avg

9. Q1 Q2 Q3
200 M
60 M
20 M
API Requests
2 000 000 a month / customer on avg

10. Traffic spikes

11. Prepare for the vision

12. Technical decisions

13. aito.ai
Our infra
ALB
Aito ML
Node.js
(ECS)
Kubernetes
Terraform
Cloudformation + ECS

14. aito.ai
Our infra
Kubernetes
Terraform
Cloudformation + ECS
ALB
Aito ML
Node.js
(ECS)

15. aito.ai
Our infra
API
Gateway
ALB
Lambda
Kubernetes
Terraform
Cloudformation + ECS
Node.js
ALB
Aito ML

16. aito.ai
Our infra
Kubernetes
Terraform
Cloudformation + ECS
API
Gateway
ALB
LambdaNode.js
ALB
VPCLink
HA Proxy (Fargate)
Aito ML

17. aito.ai
Our infra
Kubernetes
Terraform
Cloudformation + ECS
API
Gateway
ALB
LambdaNode.js
ALB
Aito ML
VPCLink
HA Proxy (Fargate)

18. Technical debt is ok

19. Things will change

20. Key points
• Build for a realistic vision
• Things will change
• Rely on fully-managed services
• Technical debt is ok

21. Thank you!
KIMMO BRUNFELDT & KAI INKINEN
hello@aito.ai