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The AKF Difference

During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we consider hiring you?”,…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The Importance of QA

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter DruckerThe Importance of QAHigh levels of quality are essential…

AKF

· 8 min read

Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance

Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Most everyone will agree that a high…

Roger Andelin

· 6 min read

The Elusive Data Breach

“but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin...and data breaches. Given the era that Benjamin Franklin lived in the concept…

AKF

· 5 min read

Putting Customer Interaction First in Software Development

Eat Your Own Dog FoodEating your own dog food is a common phrase that is cynical from the start – unless you like eating dog food! A more positive, but often overused cliche,…

Pete Ferguson

· 7 min read

A Financial Analogy for Technical Debt

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

Bill Armelin

· 8 min read

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

· 6 min read

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

· 4 min read

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

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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

· 6 min read

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 in…

AKF

· 3 min read

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

· 2 min read

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

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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

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