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The Scale Cube

The Scale Cube is a model for segmenting services, defining microservices and scaling products. It also creates a common language for teams to discuss scale related options in…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Achieving Results, Culture, and the AKF Equation

We can tell a lot about a company within the first hour or so of any discussion. Consider the following statement fragments:“We have a lot of smart people here…”Or“We have…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Evaluating Technology Risk Using Mathematics

The Relative Risk EquationTechnologists are frequently asked: what are the chances that a given software release is going to work?  Do we understand the risk that each…

AKF

· 4 min read

Avoiding the Policy Black Hole

During due diligence and in-depth engagements, we often hear feedback from client employees that policies either do not exist - or are not followed.All too often we see policies…

Pete Ferguson

· 15 min read

How to write concisely

The Three Sentence RuleVariations of the Three Sentence Rule have been around for a long time. The differences are multiplicative but the base rule is a useful and often necessary…

AKF

· 3 min read

Microservices for Breadth, Libraries for Depth

The decomposition of monoliths into services, or alternatively the development of new products in a services-oriented fashion (oftentimes called microservices), is one of the greatest…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

Security Considerations for Technical Due Diligence

It seems as though a week cannot go by without news reports of yet another data breach at a large, recognizable company. One wonders what has been compromised but not yet detected…

Greg Fennewald

· 3 min read

Technical Due Diligence: Did We Get It Right

Technical Due Diligence: Did We get it Right?AKF Partners have performed 100s of technical due diligence engagements on behalf of strategic investors, private equity, venture capitalists…

AKF

· 6 min read

Societal Consequences of the Uber Autonomous Vehicle Death

It is sad and unfortunate, but the inevitable has finally happened; we’ve suffered our first death from an autonomous vehicle. The Uber Autonomous Vehicle fatality in Tempe is…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

SaaS Migration Challenges

More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS, agile world. SaaS…

Dave Swenson

· 6 min read

Managing Risk with Technical Due Diligence

You should not buy a home without an inspection by a licensed home inspector and you should not buy a used car without having a mechanic check it out for you. Diligence - it just…

Greg Fennewald

· 6 min read

The AKF Partners Security Insights Cube

Necessary But Insufficient Security ReviewsFrom a security perspective, tech product companies far too often focus solely on various ISO and/or NIST audits to help inform their…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Your Site is as Important as the Product You Sell - Recent Example from Saddleback Leather

If you have a premium product, at a premium price, it’s unlikely you would sell it out of a rundown, poorly lighted store that smells vaguely like stale meat. Yet somehow many…

Pete Ferguson

· 3 min read

Technical Due Diligence Best Practices

Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that companies evaluate…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

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