Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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…
The Easiest Job Hands down, the easiest job in any company that produces software for on-premises delivery is the sales job. Everything is…
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…
Asynchronous messaging systems are a critical component of many highly scalable and highly available architectures. But, as with any other architectural…
Running a technology company is a challenging endeavor. Not only are consumers demands changing daily, the technology to deliver upon those demands is…
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…
Microservices Architecture (aka Microservice Architecture) is an architectural approach emerging from service-oriented architecture. Sometimes called just…
When AKF Partners uses the term asynchronous, we use it in the logical rather than the physical (transport mechanism) sense. Solutions that communicate…
The Tail (pun intended) of Dorothy-Boy the Goldfish When my now-adult son was 5, he was constantly enamored in the pet aisle of the local superstore of the…
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…
Our clients often ask us the following question: “What is the role of the business analyst in Agile development?” Spoiler Alert: There isn’t a role for the…
A few years back, a senior leader at a previous company decided that being “cutting edge” was a core value we should espouse and so we quickly became the…
