Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
One of the things I love about working at AKF Partners is the wide variety of clients we get to work with. We assist everyone from young startups, where the…
Product Managers, Product Owners and Program Managers – Ask the Right Questions and Know the Key Differences.
CEO Guide to Domain Driven Design This is the 3rd article in a series of Monoliths, Microservices, and how move from Monoliths to Microservices.
By now if you haven’t been drawn into the soap opera that has been OpenAI, you’ve clearly been disconnected from any sort of media or you’ve recently returned…
We are often brought in to evaluate technical architecture as part of technical due diligence for investors, board members, and executive leadership. One of…
With the evolution of distributed architectures, we see many clients who have taken the idea of autonomy to something that is closer to anarchy. Rightfully so,…
In our previous blogpost The Big Picture - Connecting Strategy to Architecture, we identified Technology Diagrams as an important artifact during…
In our previous blogpost 'The Big Picture - Connecting Strategy to Architecture'", we identified a Feature Matrix as an important artifact during…
Staff Augmentation is a common approach to managing engineering capacity more flexibly than relying 100% on full-time employees. However, the approach to staff…
Absent a CTO that knows how to lead and operate a product engineering shop, the team’s ability to innovate at an acceptable velocity is unlikely. The Chief…
“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.” - John Maxwell
We run into this less frequently but still find large, mature companies entrenched with the idea that every developer must be “full stack.” This “master of all…
