operations

Scalability Workshops

AKF Scalability WorkshopPhoenix Feb 7 - 8, 2018!Register Now for our next workshop! Workshop OverviewOur workshop is designed for technology executives who are responsible for…

AKF

April 19, 2017 · 3 min read

Architecture

What Size Should Microservices Be?

It seems that everyone is on the microservice architecture bus these days (splits by the Y axis on the AKF Scale Cube). One question we commonly receive as companies create their…

Pete Ferguson

April 3, 2017 · 5 min read

Organization Process

Engineering Metrics

A topic that often results in great debate is “how to measure engineers?” I’m a pretty data driven guy so I’m a fan of metrics as long as they are 1) measured correctly…

AKF

April 3, 2017 · 3 min read

Architecture

Splitting Databases for Scale

The most common point of congestion and therefore barrier to scale that we see in our practice is the database. Referring back to our earlier article “Splitting Applications…

AKF

April 3, 2017 · 5 min read

Architecture

Splitting Applications or Services for Scale

Splitting Applications or Services for ScaleMost internet enabled products start their life as a single application running on an appserver or appserver/webserver combination and…

AKF

April 3, 2017 · 4 min read

Organization Process

PDLC or SDLC

As a frequent technology writer I often find myself referring to the method or process that teams use to produce software. The two terms that are usually given for this are software…

AKF

April 3, 2017 · 2 min read

Product

Definition of MVP

We often use the term minimum viable product or MVP but do we all agree on what it means? In the Scrum spirt of Definition of Done, I believe the Definition of MVP is worth stating…

AKF

April 3, 2017 · 1 min read

Leadership

AKF Turns 10 – And It’s Still Not About the Tech

The caller ID was blocked but Marty had been expecting the call. Three “highly connected” people – donors, political advisers and “inner circle” people – had suggested…

AKF

March 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Leadership

AKF Interim Leadership Case Study

Read about one of our success stories in which we filled an interim CTO role at a marketing subscription company in New York.AKF Long-term Case Study

AKF

March 21, 2017 · 0 min read

Message

operations

Scalability Workshops

What Size Should Microservices Be?

Engineering Metrics

Splitting Databases for Scale

Splitting Applications or Services for Scale

PDLC or SDLC

Definition of MVP

AKF Turns 10 – And It’s Still Not About the Tech

AKF Interim Leadership Case Study

Categories

Most Popular