Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
We are surprised at how often we go into a client and find that management does not have any metrics for their teams. The managers respond that they don’t want…
As technology professionals, managing risk is an important part of the value we provide to the business. Risk can take many forms, including threats to…
Disaster Recovery is the bellybutton of the IT world. Everyone has it (or at least in theory) – However, does anyone know if it can be used for anything useful?
Time it takes to boil an egg: 720,000 milliseconds
I’m no Nostradamus when it comes to predicting the future of technology, but some trends are just too blatantly obvious to ignore. Unfortunately, they are only…
Everything fails! This is a mantra that we are always espousing at AKF. At some point, these failures will manifest themselves as an outage. In a SaaS world,…
It’s important to acknowledge that a core competency for hackers is hiding their tracks and maintaining dormancy for long periods of time after they’ve…
“An incident is a terrible thing to waste” is a common mantra that AKF repeats during its Engagements. And rightfully so as many companies have an incident…
Contemplating how to scale your website is not often a paramount concern in the early days when the focus is on time to market and core functionality. Growth…
AKF often recommends to our clients the adoption of business metric monitoring – the use of high-level user activity or transaction patterns that can often…
The simplest definition of risk is the probability an incident occurs times the impact of the incident. The higher this number is, the higher the risk. With…
If you have a premium product, at a premium price, it’s unlikely you would sell it out of a rundown, poorly lighted store that smells vaguely like stale meat.…
