Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Have you ever wondered how to achieve a faster time to market (TTM) for your product teams? Do you have a straightforward task, a personal project, or a team…
I’m a cancer survivor. Not the kind of biological cancer that took both my grandfathers and has affected many of my friends and family, but the evil and…
There seems to be a growing movement online fighting against microservices. The movement itself shouldn’t alarm anyone, such backlash is common with the…
AKF Partners Workshops in Scottsdale AKF Partners will offer two different workshops in our Scottsdale office later this year. The first is our CTO Bootcamp, a…
There are many reasons why startups represent the vast majority (virtually all) of the disruptive innovation in the US specifically and the world broadly. The…
The AKF Availability Cube is a model to guide discussions on how to achieve high availability, as well as a tool to evaluate the theoretical "as designed"…
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Backend for Frontend Overview In the Backend for Frontend pattern, a service (“the backend”) serves as a termination point for a requesting interface (“the…
Many of our clients struggle with ensuring that the solutions they create meet the needs of both their business and their customers. The exact symptoms of the…
The Problem – Too Much Planning, Too Little Execution
Two of the most common statements we hear from our clients are:
As a company matures from a startup to a growing business, there are a number of measurables that become table stakes – basic tools for managing a business.…
