Organization
The AKF Difference
During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we…
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Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Leadership
The Importance of QA
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter Drucker
Process
Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance
Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Most everyone will…
Security
The Elusive Data Breach
“but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin ...and data breaches. Given the era that Benjamin Franklin…
Product
Putting Customer Interaction First in Software Development
Eat Your Own Dog Food
Technical Debt
A Financial Analogy for Technical Debt
Understanding Technical Debt
Architecture
The Domino or Multiplicative Effect of Failure
As part of our Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews, we always want to see a company’s system architecture, understand their process, and review…
Leadership
Effective Incident Communications
Everything fails! This is a mantra that we are always espousing at AKF. At some point, these failures will manifest themselves as an outage. In a SaaS world,…
Security
Are you compromised?
It’s important to acknowledge that a core competency for hackers is hiding their tracks and maintaining dormancy for long periods of time after they’ve…
Architecture
Scalability
The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability
Leadership
The Importance of a Post Mortem
“An incident is a terrible thing to waste” is a common mantra that AKF repeats during its Engagements. And rightfully so as many companies have an incident…
Organization
Expanding Agile Throughout
In our experience we have seen how Agile practices provide organizations within successful companies many benefits which is leading to more and more companies…