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If It's Not Observable, It Can't be Released – Design To Be Monitored

Design To Be Monitored is one of those AKF architectural principles that resonates with many product engineering teams. After all, high availability, reliability, and visibility…

Dave Berardi

· 5 min read

Postmortems: Box Checker or Value Creator

how to tell if postmortems are adding value

Greg Fennewald

· 3 min read

Security Anti-Pattern: Firewall Frenzy (Firewalls, Firewalls Everywhere!)

This article is one of a series of security anti-patterns commonly found in our experience and during technical due diligences for investors, and workshops with our clients. A…

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

CEO Guide to Agile

Agile Development is designed for Software PRODUCTs. Waterfall development is designed for PROJECTS and PHYSICAL products. We walk through the key elements for CEOs and executives to guide their teams.

Phillip Seawright

· 15 min read

Microservice Architecture Principle: One or Zero Databases Per Service

One or Zero Databases per Service Instance for Microservices - part of the AKF Partners Microservice Principles

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

CEO Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance

What are Engineering Team Performance metrics?To CEO’s, especially those with a non-technical background, the Engineering organization can be a bit of a black box. That black…

Heather Abbott

· 12 min read

Security anti-pattern: Gatekeeper – i.e. Department of “No”

This is the second in a multi-part series on information security anti-patterns. Too often in our technical due diligence and workshop engagements we encounter development teams…

Pete Ferguson

· 4 min read

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 opportunity to advance…

Greg Fennewald

· 3 min read

Microservice Architecture Principles

11 Microservice Architecture Principles for Every Engineering Team

Marty Abbott

· 11 min read

Security Anti-Pattern: Checklist Compliance

A good security culture requires a lot more than checkbox compliance - it is the right thing to do and it is fast becoming the legally required thing to do.

Pete Ferguson

· 4 min read

Leadership Anti-Pattern: Victim Mentality

Leaders don't have victim mentalities - own your failures

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

1-10-100 rule in quality software development

What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control? The 1-10-100 rule simply refers to the cost to fix defects (aka bugs) by phase/step in a software development…

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

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:Build a better mousetrap, and the world…

Eric Arrington

· 9 min read

CEO Guide to Quality Engineering

What is Quality Engineering? Quality Engineering encompasses all the product quality improving practices that you incorporate into your end-to-end (E2E) product delivery process.…

Heather Abbott

· 6 min read
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