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The Top 20 Mistakes in Technology

In the fast growth environment of the tech industry, there are mistakes repeatedly made that we find during AKF technical due diligence reviews of young startups, medium-sized fast-growing business, and well-established mature organizations.

Pete Ferguson

· 13 min read

The Big Picture - Connecting Strategy to Architecture

Startups SaaS companies can easily link their business strategy to their SaaS or eCommerce architecture. However, as companies grow beyond a dozen employees and departments start growing in headcount, there is seldom one person that understands how to tie the architecture back to the ever-evolving market. Drawings and mapping are needed where words are insufficient.

Phillip Seawright

· 4 min read

Guide to Optimizing Your Relational Data Model (Scalability Rule #31)

The base of this discussion is about building and maintaining a healthy data model. If executed improperly you may find yourself in a costly situation when demand out grows your…

Lauren Steel

· 10 min read

Why Is My Development Team So Slow?

Causes of slowing velocity in development teams over time

Marty Abbott

· 7 min read

Scalability Rule 39: Feature Flags

What are feature flags and when should they be used?

Greg Fennewald

· 4 min read

CEO Guide to Optimizing Technology Organizational Structure

The What and Why of Technology Organizational Structure Technology and Product organizational structures commonly oscillate between: Centralized and decentralized (single monolithic…

Heather Abbott

· 11 min read

Don't Rely on QA to Find Mistakes

A few years back, my husband and I moved from California to Florida to start new jobs. With our children in tow, we said goodbye to the mountains and dry heat to a life of flat…

Victoria Wisot

· 5 min read

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
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