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Architecture
The Domino or Multiplicative Effect of Failure
As part of our Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews, we always want to see a company’s system architecture, understand their process, and review…
Leadership
Effective Incident Communications
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,…
Security
Are you compromised?
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…
Architecture
Scalability
The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability
Leadership
The Importance of a Post Mortem
“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…
Organization
Expanding Agile Throughout
In our experience we have seen how Agile practices provide organizations within successful companies many benefits which is leading to more and more companies…
SaaS
Migrating from a legacy product to a SaaS service? Don't make these mistakes!!
AKF has been kept quite busy over the last decade helping companies move from an on-premises product to a SaaS service - often one of the most difficult…
Security
Open Source Software as a malware “on ramp”
Open Source Software (OSS) is an efficient means to building out solutions rapidly with high quality. You utilize crowdsourced design, development and…
SaaS
SaaS Risk and Value Shift
The movement to SaaS specifically, and more broadly “Anything” (X) as a Service (XaaS) is driven by demand side (buyer) forces. In early cases within any…
SaaS
The Phases of SaaS Grief
Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS),…
Architecture
AKF Scale Cube: Ze Case for Z Axis
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…