Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future capability for product organizations building software products — it is a present-day competitive necessity. The…
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
Business continuity is a critical but often neglected part of managing a technology product. Perhaps this is because it is not a very exciting topic compared…
Our updated Availability Risk Model identified many risk drivers. The Risk tree showed components, but not the math to estimate downtime. We will highlight…
We have recently updated our Availability Risk Model. Our previous article was a high level introduction to managing the risk of downtime. With the…
What is Incident Management? We define Incident Management as:
What is Site Reliability Engineering?
What is DevOps?
Shoulder pads were in, Reagan just became president, and "Back to the Future" was released in the theaters. 1985 will be remembered for many reasons, but for…
In the book Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Websites (Abbott & Fisher), Chapter 9 (Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure) includes rule 39,…
