Architecture
Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures
In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a…
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Multi-Tenant Defined
Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy. Most people have a definition in their mind for…
Architecture
The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud
Enough is enough already – stop using the term “Cloud”. Somewhere during the last 20 years, the term “Cloud” started to mean to product offerings what Sriracha…
Architecture
Do you know what is negatively affecting your engineers' productivity? Shouldn't you?
Meetings, meetings, meetings. How many times have we said that? Visiting dozens and dozens of clients per year, we see a number of customers whose culture…
Architecture
The Problem with Non-Functional Requirements
Image Credit Many of our clients use the term “Non-Functional Requirements” to group into a basket those portions of their solution that don’t easily fit…
Architecture
The Scale Cube
The Scale Cube is a model for segmenting services, defining microservices and scaling products. It also creates a common language for teams to discuss scale…
Architecture
How to write concisely
The Three Sentence Rule Variations of the Three Sentence Rule have been around for a long time. The differences are multiplicative but the base rule is a…
Architecture
Security Considerations for Technical Due Diligence
It seems as though a week cannot go by without news reports of yet another data breach at a large, recognizable company. One wonders what has been compromised…
Architecture
Microservices for Breadth, Libraries for Depth
The decomposition of monoliths into services, or alternatively the development of new products in a services-oriented fashion (oftentimes called…
Architecture
SaaS Migration Challenges
More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS,…
Architecture
The AKF Partners Security Insights Cube
Necessary But Insufficient Security Reviews From a security perspective, tech product companies far too often focus solely on various ISO and/or NIST audits…
Architecture
Technical Due Diligence Best Practices
Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that…