CEO Guide to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

A Financial Analogy for Technical Debt

Understanding Technical Debt During the course of our client engagements, there are a few common topics or themes that are always discussed, and the clients themselves usually…

Bill Armelin

October 12, 2018 · 8 min read

Organization Process

The Domino or Multiplicative Effect of Failure

As part of our Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews, we always want to see a company’s system architecture, understand their process, and review their org chart. …

Pete Ferguson

September 18, 2018 · 6 min read

Organization Process

Effective Incident Communications

Everything fails! This is a mantra that we are always espousing at AKF. At some point, these failures will manifest themselves as an outage. In a SaaS world, restoring service…

Bill Armelin

September 17, 2018 · 4 min read

Technical Diligence Leadership Process Product Security

Are you compromised?

It’s important to acknowledge that a core competency for hackers is hiding their tracks and maintaining dormancy for long periods of time after they’ve infiltrated an environment.…

AKF

September 14, 2018 · 2 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process

Scalability

The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability Perhaps the most common question we get at AKF Partners when performing technical due diligence on a company is, “Will…

AKF

September 10, 2018 · 6 min read

Process

The Importance of a Post Mortem

“An incident is a terrible thing to waste” is a common mantra that AKF repeats during its Engagements. And rightfully so as many companies have an incident response plan…

AKF

September 6, 2018 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

Expanding Agile Throughout

In our experience we have seen how Agile practices provide organizations within successful companies many benefits which is leading to more and more companies adopting frameworks…

AKF

September 6, 2018 · 3 min read

SaaS Organization Process

Migrating from a legacy product to a SaaS service? Don't make these mistakes!!

AKF has been kept quite busy over the last decade helping companies move from an on-premises product to a SaaS service - often one of the most difficult transitions a company can…

Dave Swenson

September 4, 2018 · 7 min read

Technical Diligence SaaS Process Product Security

Open Source Software as a malware “on ramp”

Open Source Software (OSS) is an efficient means to building out solutions rapidly with high quality. You utilize crowdsourced design, development and validation to conveniently…

AKF

August 21, 2018 · 2 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

SaaS Risk and Value Shift

The movement to SaaS specifically, and more broadly “Anything” (X) as a Service (XaaS) is driven by demand side (buyer) forces. In early cases within any industry, the…

Marty Abbott

August 2, 2018 · 5 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

The Phases of SaaS Grief

Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS),…

Marty Abbott

July 24, 2018 · 11 min read

AKF Scale Cube: Ze Case for Z Axis

Contemplating how to scale your website is not often a paramount concern in the early days when the focus is on time to market and core functionality. Growth over time will…

Greg Fennewald

July 24, 2018 · 3 min read

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