Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Have you ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs &…
This article is the fourth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…
Results = Results
This article is the third in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…
Time it takes to boil an egg: 720,000 milliseconds
This article is the second in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…
This article is the first in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns.
Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, the IETF and the W3C consortium all understood the value of being stateless when they developed the Hyper Text…
The Crippling Cost of Distractions Perhaps the biggest thief of progress is the misuse of time. Not talking about laziness here – I’m referring to what we…
I’m no Nostradamus when it comes to predicting the future of technology, but some trends are just too blatantly obvious to ignore. Unfortunately, they are only…
Our typical assessment goes something like this: We spend 1.75 days with an energized product team comprised of engineers and product managers. We feel the…
During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we…
