Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Shoulder pads were in, Reagan just became president, and "Back to the Future" was released in the theaters. 1985 will be remembered for many reasons, but for…
“There are an estimated 12 million to 24 million ecommerce websites in the world. Nearly 60% of American consumers prefer to shop online. U.S. consumers spend,…
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…
Drawings Maps to Lead the Organization Startups SaaS companies can easily link their business strategy to their SaaS or eCommerce architecture. However,…
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…
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…
In the book Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Websites (Abbott & Fisher), Chapter 9 (Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure) includes rule…
The What and Why of Technology Organizational Structure Technology and Product organizational structures commonly oscillate between:…
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…
Design To Be Monitored is one of those AKF architectural principles that resonates with many product engineering teams. After all, high availability,…
When we evaluate the operations processes of clients, one of the subordinate processes we look at are postmortems. Postmortems are an expected component of…
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…
