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The Top 20 Mistakes in Technology
One of the most common questions we get asked is, “What are the most common technical failures you see development and product teams make?” To answer this…
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The Big Picture - Connecting Strategy to Architecture
Drawings Maps to Lead the Organization Startups SaaS companies can easily link their business strategy to their SaaS or eCommerce architecture. However,…
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Guide to Optimizing Your Relational Data Model (Scalability Rule #31)
The base of this discussion is about building and maintaining a healthy data model. If executed improperly you may find yourself in a costly situation when…
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Why Is My Development Team So Slow?
We are commonly asked questions similar to this: “My company has doubled the size of the development team over the last couple of years, yet the…
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Scalability Rule 39: Feature Flags
In the book Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Websites (Abbott & Fisher), Chapter 9 (Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure) includes rule…
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CEO Guide to Optimizing Technology Organizational Structure
The What and Why of Technology Organizational Structure Technology and Product organizational structures commonly oscillate between:…
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Don't Rely on QA to Find Mistakes
A few years back, my husband and I moved from California to Florida to start new jobs. With our children in tow, we said goodbye to the mountains and dry heat…
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If It's Not Observable, It Can't be Released – Design To Be Monitored
Design To Be Monitored is one of those AKF architectural principles that resonates with many product engineering teams. After all, high availability,…
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Postmortems: Box Checker or Value Creator
When we evaluate the operations processes of clients, one of the subordinate processes we look at are postmortems. Postmortems are an expected component of…
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Security Anti-Pattern: Firewall Frenzy (Firewalls, Firewalls Everywhere!)
This article is one of a series of security anti-patterns commonly found in our experience and during technical due diligences for investors, and workshops…
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CEO Guide to Agile
What is Agile? Agile has different meanings to different audiences. For the majority of customers, Agile applies to the development of digital products or…
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Microservice Architecture Principle: One or Zero Databases Per Service
This post is a deeper dive on the AKF Microservice Architecture Principle “One or Zero Databases per Service”. The Predicates Microservice and…