Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Design To Be Monitored is one of those AKF architectural principles that resonates with many product engineering teams. After all, high availability,…
When we evaluate the operations processes of clients, one of the subordinate processes we look at are postmortems. Postmortems are an expected component of…
There is a ubiquitous saying “never let a crisis go to waste” which has been applied across many fields and topics. While some may regard a crisis as an…
Visit 100 websites and 100 companies and you’ll find neither a consistent definition nor a consistent implementation for Product Operations. As Marty Cagan…
Necessary But Insufficient Security Reviews
One way to create a "stable" service is to limit the number of changes made to the system. Limiting change may improve stability, but it may also limit the…
In the sci-fi cult classic "The Fifth Element" starring Bruce Willis, there is a scene of man vs. unknown power where the military fires all they've got at an…
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is forcing people to work from home. Suddenly many organizations have to support an entirely remote workforce. The "social…
The AKF Availability Cube is a model to guide discussions on how to achieve high availability, as well as a tool to evaluate the theoretical "as designed"…
As a company matures from a startup to a growing business, there are a number of measurables that become table stakes – basic tools for managing a business.…
At AKF Partners, we believe in learning aggressively, not just from your successes, but also your failures. One common failure we see are service disrupting…
On February 7, 2019, Wells Fargo experienced a major service interruption to its customer facing applications. The bank blamed a power shutdown at one of its…
