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Organization

Why True Product Companies Succeed While Others Fail

One of the things I love about working at AKF Partners is the wide variety of clients we get to work with. We assist everyone from young startups, where the…

Architecture

Estimating Availability - Four 9s is the Ceiling

Our updated Availability Risk Model identified many risk drivers. The Risk tree showed components, but not the math to estimate downtime. We will highlight…

Architecture

Drivers of Downtime - a.k.a. Availability Risk

We have recently updated our Availability Risk Model. Our previous article was a high level introduction to managing the risk of downtime. With the…

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science is Still the Best Major

Keli Korducki’s Atlantic article “So Much for Learn to Code” and Farhad Majoo’s New York Times opinion piece “It’s the End of Computer Programming as we Know…

Artificial Intelligence

Evaluating the AI/ML Capabilities of an Investment Target

Around October 2020, we saw a sudden influx of investments into companies claiming they had unique artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)…

Artificial Intelligence

AI/ML & Domain Driven Design

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as transformative tools, changing the…