Scalability Rules. Scalability Rules brings together 50 rules that are grounded in experience garnered from over a hundred companies such as eBay, Intuit, PayPal, Etsy, Folica, and Salesforce. Put together and organized to be easily read and referenced for rapid application to nearly any technical environment. The rules are technology agnostic and have been applied to LAMP, .net, and even midrange system architectures. AKF Partners help you scale your platform, improve availability and accelerate your growth. AKF Partners include Marty Abbott, Tom Keeven, and Michael Fisher (Mike Fisher) they are technology consultants who specialize in scalability and availability for hyper-growth companies by helping architect scalable websites. As experts in scalability they have authored two books, The Art of Scalability, Scalability Rules, and hundreds of informative post on their technology blog.