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How an AI bot beat the world's best gamers
Last month, a bot developed by OpenAI (co-founded by Elon Musk) beat the world’s best, pro Dota 2 players. This is another milestone accomplishment in the…
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Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It
The Law that Almost Wasn’t Conway’s law had a rather precarious beginning. Harvard Business Review rejected Conway’s thesis, buried as it was in the 43d…
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AKF Scale Cube: Ze Case for Z Axis
Contemplating how to scale your website is not often a paramount concern in the early days when the focus is on time to market and core functionality. Growth…
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Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization
Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization In Geoffrey Moore’s book “Crossing the Chasm,” he argues there is a chasm between the early adopters of…
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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…
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Scalability Workshops
AKF Scalability Workshop Phoenix Feb 7 - 8, 2018! Register Now for our next workshop! Workshop Overview Our workshop is designed for technology…
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Splitting Applications or Services for Scale
Splitting Applications or Services for Scale Most internet enabled products start their life as a single application running on an appserver or…
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Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty
The Leap of Faith When we embark on building SaaS product that will delight customers we are taking a leap of faith. We often don’t even know whether or not…
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What Google Got Right and Wrong with Firing James Damore
We have a saying in AKF Partners that “an incident is a terrible thing to waste”. When things go poorly in a firm, stakeholders (shareholders, partners,…
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AKF Interim Leadership Case Study
Read about one of our success stories in which we filled an interim CTO role at a marketing subscription company in New York. AKF Long-term Case Study…
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A Financial Analogy for Technical Debt
Understanding Technical Debt During the course of our client engagements, there are a few common topics or themes that are always discussed, and the…
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4 Landmines When Using Serverless Architecture
Physical Bare Metal, Virtualization, Cloud Compute, Containers, and now Serverless in your SaaS? We are starting to hear more and more about Serverless…