Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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…
We are commonly asked questions similar to this:
In the book Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Websites (Abbott & Fisher), Chapter 9 (Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure) includes rule 39,…
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…
What is Quality Engineering?
In my previous article, Browser Scalability, I addressed the ability of a stateful browser using a stateless strategy to scale web applications and add the…
Browsers have not been considered as a compute resource to aid in scalability and fault tolerance. Through the use of modern Java Script frameworks, the…
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Every wonder what really makes a website tick? Or why some sites seem slower or faster than expected? Well, rest assured, there are straight-forward answers.…
Believe it or not, website speed is directly related to conversion and revenue. One element that delays the time before a user can interact with a website is…
Software engineers have likely heard of the studies that show how the cost of a defect increases by an order of magnitude for each successive phase. If you…
It’s never been a better time to be a hacker or developer of malware as nearly every company has or is moving core functionality online and this makes these…
