Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
A few years back, a senior leader at a previous company decided that being “cutting edge” was a core value we should espouse and so we quickly became the…
Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Most everyone will…
Eat Your Own Dog Food
Following our first article on the conflict between licensed products and SaaS solutions, we now present a necessary (but not always sufficient) list of SaaS…
In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a…
Meetings, meetings, meetings. How many times have we said that? Visiting dozens and dozens of clients per year, we see a number of customers whose culture…
Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful
Scientists, Engineers, and Technicians
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…
