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Andrea Malagodi, CTO of Sonar, discusses how the company successfully transitioned from on-premise to SaaS, leveraging AWS partnership and maintaining focus on developer-centric code quality and security solutions.
Topics Include:
- Andrea Malagodi is CTO of Sonar, guest on podcast
- Sonar founded 16+ years ago by three software engineers
- Founders wanted to help developers understand code quality issues
- Focus on giving developers precise, actionable insights for improvement
- Products include SonarQube Server, Cloud, and IDE versions
- Recent acquisitions: ACR, Tidelift, and Structure 101 companies
- SaaS journey began seven years ago with SonarQube Cloud
- Initially targeted individual developers, then expanded to enterprises
- Now multi-region with comprehensive enterprise features available
- Seven million developers rely on Sonar's solutions globally
- 400,000 organizations and 28,000 enterprise customers use Sonar
- Started SaaS to test market demand, not assumptions
- Engaged customers early to understand migration requirements needed
- Recommends alpha versions with design customers for feedback
- Free tier for open-source code enables quick trial
- Enterprise certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) build trust
- AWS partnership includes enterprise support and technical resources
- Used CDK for infrastructure-as-code, experienced early adoption challenges
- Multi-region strategy should be considered from the beginning
- AWS Learning partnership certified all engineers in cloud
- Cloud enables faster development cycles than traditional infrastructure
- Recommends avoiding architectural one-way doors during transition
- Consider data residency requirements for global customer base
- AI-generated code creates productivity gains but needs validation
- Sonar provides deterministic rules for AI-generated code review
- Working on MCP protocol and AI code quality solutions
- Security approach is "start left" not "shift left"
- Advanced Security offering includes dependency scanning and vulnerabilities
- Available on sonarsource.com and AWS Marketplace
- Free tier offers 50,000 lines of code analysis
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