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Monolithic Startup to Domain-Driven Enterprise - Navigating the Transition

Startups often embark on their journey with a monolithic architecture—a single, indivisible codebase that encompasses all the functionality of their product. We advise young…

John Jackson

· 11 min read

Drivers of Downtime - a.k.a. Availability Risk

We have recently updated our Availability Risk Model. Our previous article was a high level introduction to managing the risk of downtime.  With the proliferation of…

Phillip Seawright

· 4 min read

Product Managers, Product Owners and Program Managers – Ask the Right Questions and Know the Key Differences.

Product Managers, Product Owners and Program Managers – Ask the Right Questions and Know the Key Differences. My role in my organization is facilitating the sprint planning estimation…

StephRene Forbes

· 4 min read

CEO Guide to Domain Driven Design - Leading a Digital Transformation

CEO Guide to Domain Driven Design This is the 3rd article in a series of Monoliths, Microservices, and how move from Monoliths to Microservices.  One of the most challenging…

Phillip Seawright

· 6 min read

Computer Science is Still the Best Major

Keli Korducki’s Atlantic article “So Much for Learn to Code” and Farhad Majoo’s New York Times opinion piece “It’s the End of Computer Programming as we Know…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

OpenAI, Sam Altman and Failed Governance - A Postmortem of the OpenAI Governance Soap Opera

By now if you haven’t been drawn into the soap opera that has been OpenAI, you’ve clearly been disconnected from any sort of media or you’ve recently returned from a long…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Evaluating the AI/ML Capabilities of an Investment Target

Around October 2020, we saw a sudden influx of investments into companies claiming they had unique artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities. It felt like…

Pete Ferguson

· 6 min read

Should I Capitalize or Expense R&D Software Development Costs?

Periodically, our clients ask us about the accounting treatment for the software development costs to develop the services they sell and the sites they use for commerce. In most…

Heather Abbott

· 7 min read

AI/ML & Domain Driven Design

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as transformative tools, changing the way businesses operate,…

John Jackson

· 13 min read

Seed, Feed, Weed - How to maximize performance from your people in technology

We are often brought in to evaluate technical architecture as part of technical due diligence for investors, board members, and executive leadership. One of the questions that…

Pete Ferguson

· 3 min read

AKF Scale Cube Explained – Cloud Scalability Rules

Scalability doesn’t somehow magically appear when you trust a cloud provider to host your systems. While Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others likely will be able to provide…

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

Technology Due Diligence Checklist

AKF has been conducting technology due diligence on behalf of our investor and strategic acquirer customers for over 15 years. Along this journey we developed a checklist to help…

Greg Fennewald

· 10 min read

CEO Guide to Engineering Centers of Excellence

With the evolution of distributed architectures, we see many clients who have taken the idea of autonomy to something that is closer to anarchy. Rightfully so, companies are trying…

Heather Abbott

· 10 min read

AI/ML for Product Managers

In the ever-evolving digital era, the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) with traditional software products has ushered in a revolution, redefining…

John Jackson

· 15 min read

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