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Scalability and Technology Consulting Advice for SaaS and Technology Companies

Marriage counseling for technology and business partners!

When was the last time you took a good honest look at the relationship between technology and business at your company? “If the CTO does not have a seat at the executive table and does not understand the business challenges the company is facing, there is no way the CTO can guide the technology to solve those problems"

AKF

· 7 min read

SaaS Principles Part 2

SaaS Principles for Engineering and Product Organizations

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Managing Risk

Ways to manage Risk using the AKF Risk Model

AKF

· 3 min read

Tech Due Diligence - 5 Common Security Mistakes

During an AKF Partners Technical Due Diligence we often find five common security mistakes made by both small startups and larger companies as they take on additional investment, scale, migrate to SaaS, or migrate to the cloud.

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

Separation of Duties in an Agile Environment

Achieving Separation of Duties in an Agile Environment can be a challenge, but is doable! Utilizing automation, even a small team is able to meet this compliance requirement. AKF Partners Technical Due Diligence.

AKF

· 3 min read

SaaS Principles Part 1 - The Conflict between Licensed Software and SaaS

What makes a successful licensed software company successful can cause a SaaS company to fail.

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures

Technical Due Diligences identify strengths and weaknesses of companies in how they scale along the AKF Scalability Cube. In Eight Reasons to Avoid Stored Procedures, we investigate how stored procedures slow down databases, increase costs, limit scalability, and could affect availability.

Pete Ferguson

· 3 min read

Multi-Tenant Defined

Definition of multi-tenant and multitenant exploring various factors on costs of goods sold

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization

Successful companies endure because with their products they enter new segments of the market and because their people also successfully transition to meet emerging market and talent segments. Through the AKF Scalability Cube enduring companies grow three dimensionally across all three axes.

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud

Cloud is an overused and misleading term. Description of varying types of cloud providers plotted against operating margin and gross margin.

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The No Surprises Rule

We blogged recently about how to write precisely and concisely, highlighting how important it was to learn the “Three Sentence Rule” early in our careers so that when we communicated with other executives, we communicated with extreme brevity and clarity.  We might think of this as the “what” of executive communication.  Today, we’d like to quickly describe a few ground rules with respect to the “when” and “how" of communicating as executives.

AKF

· 3 min read

4 Landmines When Using Serverless Architecture

Physical Bare Metal, Virtualization, Cloud Compute, Containers, and now Serverless in your SaaS? We are starting to hear more and more about Serverless computing. Sometimes you will hear it called function as a service. In this next iteration of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, users can execute a task or function without having to provision a server, virtual machine, or any other underlying resource.

Dave Berardi

· 2 min read

Do you know what is negatively affecting your engineers' productivity? Shouldn't you?

Meetings, meetings, meetings. How many times have we said that? Visiting dozens and dozens of clients per year, we see a number of customers whose culture seems to be extremely…

AKF

· 3 min read

Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful

Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful At AKF Partners, we have the unique opportunity to see trends among startups and well-established companies in the dozens…

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

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