Organization
CEO Guide to Managing a CTO
This post is intended for CEOs, COOs, Presidents or CPTOs (Chief Product and Technology Officers) of companies that build software products for revenue and who…
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Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Organization
CEO Guide to Hiring an Interim CTO
What is an Interim CTO?
Architecture
CEO Guide to Microservices
What are Microservices?
CEO Guides
CEO Guide to the Public Cloud
What is the Public Cloud?
Architecture
The Platform Mindset
This is the second part in a multi-part series on platform engineering, and platform product management.
Security
The AKF Partners Security Insights Cube
Necessary But Insufficient Security Reviews
Architecture
Defining Platform
As with the word “Cloud”, the word “Platform” is an over-used and far too often underdefined word within our industry (comprised of companies that build…
Process
Why story points and velocity really matter
Recently, we have come across many teams that are not using story points and team velocity to track progress through the sprint.
Technical Debt
It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!
Do software initiatives such maintenance, upgrades and refactoring fall under the umbrella of Technical Debt? Perhaps a trick question, but when this body of…
Organization
The Danger Zone with Large Groups
How many people does it take to make a decision at your company? How many people does it take to launch a new feature for your product? To modernize and/or…
Architecture
Single Page Applications - Fault Isolation and Recovery
In my previous article, Browser Scalability, I addressed the ability of a stateful browser using a stateless strategy to scale web applications and add the…
Architecture
Single Page Applications – A New Dimension of Scale
Browsers have not been considered as a compute resource to aid in scalability and fault tolerance. Through the use of modern Java Script frameworks, the…