Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
As the leader of a technology-driven organization in 2026, you are no longer just selling software; you are selling outcome-driven intelligence. Agentic…
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…
Illustration by DAVID BOYNE Scaling a software product involves adopting architecture patterns that can handle increasing demands while maintaining…
Startups often embark on their journey with a monolithic architecture—a single, indivisible codebase that encompasses all the functionality of their product.…
CEO Guide to Domain Driven Design This is the 3rd article in a series of Monoliths, Microservices, and how move from Monoliths to Microservices.
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…
Organizations aim to achieve the best technology designs in their systems as well as provide the most optimal customer experiences. Sometimes however,…
This post is a deeper dive on the AKF Microservice Architecture Principle “One or Zero Databases per Service”. The Predicates Microservice and…
When product and engineering teams are small and tight knit, they often share an unspoken and undocumented set of principles that guide their development. The…
WHAT IS A MONOLITH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ITS IMPACT TO THE BUSINESS? You may have noticed your engineering teams are too slow or your CTO has…
What are Microservices?
In a recent blog post we wrote about the Saga Pattern. Saga attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services…
