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Welcome to Tech Nightmare, a podcast from AKF Partners. In each episode we share real experiences in technology ranging from minor incidents to outright disasters. Our stories come from our client base of over 400 companies, as well as from organizations we have ran. We highlight how technology, process and organization affect a company's scalability, and in some cases, their ability to even survive… and we discuss how you can take action to prevent similar nightmares in your business. To listen to more podcast episodes, visit us at podcast.akfpartners.com
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This week on Tech Nightmare, Partner Drew Morrell and Associate Partner Dave Berardi discuss how a large ecommerce company can almost be brought completely down by the human error of one individual.
This week on Tech Nightmare, we talk about how most technology nightmares stem from leadership failures. Managing Partner Mike Fisher and Associate Partner Dave Swenson discuss leadership issues and how they contributed to technology issues.
This week on Tech Nightmare, we discuss the impact of being an ASP instead of a SaaS company. Partners Mike Fisher and Drew Morrell discuss a healthcare software company that mistakenly thought it had become a SaaS company, what it ended up costing them, and how we helped them fix it.
This week on Tech Nightmare, we share a story of of how even a multi-billion dollar company can have very low availability when teams are not accountable for business outcomes. Partners Mike Fisher and Drew Morrell discuss what caused the issues at this company and what you can do to prevent similar outcomes.
This week’s episode looks at a string of failures that brought down a large transaction company’s SAN causing a big customer outage. Partners Drew Morrell and Greg Fennewald discuss a failure in a SAN Monitor...
This episode of Tech Nightmare explores the impact of letting your customers dictate your product backlog. Partners Mike Fisher and Drew Morrell discuss the impact of using a Sales-Driven approach to developing software and how...
In this episode of Tech Nightmares, ineffective and poorly deployed monitoring nearly brings down a large consumer transaction company’s data center. Partners Drew Morrell and Greg Fennewald discuss this data center near disaster.
Today’s episode is about Seeding, Feeding and Weeding your tech teams. Managing Partner Mike Fisher discusses a Manhattan-based startup that AKF worked with several years ago.
This week we discuss a multi-billion dollar commerce site that barely averted disaster at one of its data centers. Partners Drew Morrell and Greg Fennewald discuss what happens when a data center loses it water...
Today’s episode is about scaling out and not up, not only with your software design, but also your hardware purchases. Managing Partner Mike Fisher discusses a story from one of our clients, ZirMed, a revenue...
Today’s episode highlights how failures can occur in architecture, process or organization, but the real disasters occur when all three have failures. Managing Partner Mike Fisher discusses such a disastrous failure at an ERP hosting...
This episode of Tech Nightmare examines a company that has been unable to deliver a platform to its customers after three years of trying. Partners Mike Fisher and Drew Morrell discuss what this company has...
Welcome to the initial episode of AKF Partner’s new podcast, Tech Nightmare. In each episode, we share real experiences in technology, ranging from minor incidents to outright disasters. We discuss how you can take action...
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