Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
AKF was brought in for an architectural assessment for a critical new capability for one of our larger clients. This client is expanding core capabilities from…
The following is an excerpt from the Art of Scalability as a design approach to mitigate the effects of a Data Center or Regional failure such as the…
A Leadership View on Hidden Single Points of Failure
When adopting serverless computing for your applications, one of the common challenges our clients face is increased latency, especially during the startup…
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…
What is the Public Cloud?
AKF recently engaged with a large, very successful on-premises solution space to help define and accelerate their public cloud product offering and move to an…
When we work with CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, we frequently get asked these questions:
There seems to be a growing movement online fighting against microservices. The movement itself shouldn’t alarm anyone, such backlash is common with the…
If your company doesn’t utilize one of the big cloud providers for either IaaS or PaaS as part of product infrastructure, it's only a matter of time. We often…
The Tail (pun intended) of Dorothy-Boy the Goldfish
VMs vs Containers
