Process
CEO Guide to Agile
What is Agile? Agile has different meanings to different audiences. For the majority of customers, Agile applies to the development of digital products or…
Growth Blog
Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Architecture
Microservice Architecture Principle: One or Zero Databases Per Service
This post is a deeper dive on the AKF Microservice Architecture Principle “One or Zero Databases per Service”. The Predicates Microservice and…
CEO Guides
CEO Guide to Product
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Leadership
CEO Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance
What are Engineering Team Performance metrics?
Organization
Security anti-pattern: Gatekeeper – i.e. Department of “No”
This is the second in a multi-part series on information security anti-patterns.
Leadership
Crisis Response - Practice like its Game Time
There is a ubiquitous saying “never let a crisis go to waste” which has been applied across many fields and topics. While some may regard a crisis as an…
Security
Security Anti-Pattern: Checklist Compliance
This article is the first in a multi-part series on information security anti-patterns.
Architecture
Microservice Architecture Principles
When product and engineering teams are small and tight knit, they often share an unspoken and undocumented set of principles that guide their development. The…
Process
1-10-100 rule in quality software development
What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control?
Leadership
Leadership Anti-Pattern: Victim Mentality
Please consider the context, disparity in power, and in all but one case (as of the writing of this post) the outcomes associated with the following…
Product
The Technology Adoption Life Cycle and Sticky Notes [The Formula to Quickly Reach The Right Market]
In one of the worst quotes in American history (followed closely by every popular quote from a Marvel character), Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
Process
CEO Guide to Quality Engineering
What is Quality Engineering?