Architecture
Measuring Availability
As a company matures from a startup to a growing business, there are a number of measurables that become table stakes – basic tools for managing a business.…
Growth Blog
Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Technical Diligence
Technical Debt
For over a decade, AKF has been on a number of engagements where we have seen technology organizations put off a large portion of engineering effort wrangling…
Operations
Learning from Failure: Conducting Postmortems
At AKF Partners, we believe in learning aggressively, not just from your successes, but also your failures. One common failure we see are service disrupting…
Architecture
Migrating To The Cloud: Lift and Shift Versus Cloud Native
If your company doesn’t utilize one of the big cloud providers for either IaaS or PaaS as part of product infrastructure, it's only a matter of time. We often…
SaaS
The Easiest and Hardest Jobs in Software Companies
The Easiest Job
Architecture
The Fallacies of DR
On February 7, 2019, Wells Fargo experienced a major service interruption to its customer facing applications. The bank blamed a power shutdown at one of its…
Architecture
Architecture Principles: Messaging Systems – Smart End Points, Dumb Pipes
Asynchronous messaging systems are a critical component of many highly scalable and highly available architectures. But, as with any other architectural…
Organization
Hiring the Right Employees
Running a technology company is a challenging endeavor. Not only are consumers demands changing daily, the technology to deliver upon those demands is…
Organization
Normalization of Deviance and Software...Oh and Nasa
It’s funny how clearly you can remember some events from your childhood. I remember exactly where I was on Jan 28th, 1986. All the kids in Modoc Elementary…
Architecture
Implementing Scalable, Highly Available Messaging Services
When AKF Partners uses the term asynchronous, we use it in the logical rather than the physical (transport mechanism) sense. Solutions that communicate…
Architecture
Architectural Principle: Use Commodity Hardware (and Cloud tools)
The Tail (pun intended) of Dorothy-Boy the Goldfish
Security
Enhancing your Product Security Posture and Shifting Left
It’s never been a better time to be a hacker or developer of malware as nearly every company has or is moving core functionality online and this makes these…