Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Photo Credit: www.icomputerdenver.com Attempting to migrate on-premises, licensed products to a recurring revenue SaaS (XaaS) solution is perhaps one…
In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a…
Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy. Most people have a definition in their mind for…
Enough is enough already – stop using the term “Cloud”. Somewhere during the last 20 years, the term “Cloud” started to mean to product offerings what Sriracha…
Meetings, meetings, meetings. How many times have we said that? Visiting dozens and dozens of clients per year, we see a number of customers whose culture…
Image Credit Many of our clients use the term “Non-Functional Requirements” to group into a basket those portions of their solution that don’t easily fit…
The Scale Cube is a model for segmenting services, defining microservices and scaling products. It also creates a common language for teams to discuss scale…
The Three Sentence Rule Variations of the Three Sentence Rule have been around for a long time. The differences are multiplicative but the base rule is a…
It seems as though a week cannot go by without news reports of yet another data breach at a large, recognizable company. One wonders what has been compromised…
The decomposition of monoliths into services, or alternatively the development of new products in a services-oriented fashion (oftentimes called…
More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS,…
Necessary But Insufficient Security Reviews From a security perspective, tech product companies far too often focus solely on various ISO and/or NIST audits…
