Full Stack Engineers vs. Full Stack (Cross-Functional) Teams

Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

Transforming a traditional on-premises product and company to a SaaS model is currently in vogue and has many broad-reaching benefits for both producers and consumers of services.…

AKF

June 19, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Microservices

Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts

Strangler Pattern OverviewThe microservice Strangler pattern is employed when teams migrate functionality from an old solution to one or more new implementations. While the pattern…

Marty Abbott

June 12, 2019 · 2 min read

Organization

Achieving Team Autonomy not Anarchy

Agile teams sometimes struggle with the meaning and value of autonomy within a team. Is it the autonomy to decide how best to accomplish a goal? Is it the autonomy to choose what…

AKF

June 10, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Microservices

Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts

Sidecar Pattern OverviewThe sidecar pattern is meant to allow the deployment of components of an application into separate, isolated, and encapsulated processes or containers.…

Marty Abbott

June 5, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process Product

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

VMs vs ContainersInefficiency and down time have traditionally kept CTO’s and IT decision makers up at night. Now, new challenges are emerging driven by infrastructure inflexibility…

Eric Arrington

May 29, 2019 · 9 min read

Living in a DR World (Disaster Recovery for the Rest of Us)

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?The Disaster When…

Pete Ferguson

May 22, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Security

The Scale Cube: Achieve Security Through Scalability

If AKF Partners had to be known for one thing and one thing only it would be the Scale Cube. An ingenious little model designed for companies to identify how scalable they are…

AKF

May 14, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Mesh

This article is the sixth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In Series, covers the benefits…

Marty Abbott

May 8, 2019 · 1 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fuse

This article is the fifth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In Series, covers the benefits…

Marty Abbott

May 8, 2019 · 3 min read

Product

Why is launching an MVP so difficult?

Have you ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs & technologist…

AKF

April 29, 2019 · 5 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fuse

This article is the fourth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In Series, covers the benefits…

Marty Abbott

April 27, 2019 · 2 min read

Leadership Process

Results and Outcomes – Why Companies Fail

Results = ResultsApple, Google, and Amazon don’t exist based on a Utopian promise of what is to come – though certainly those promises keep their customers engaged and hopeful…

Pete Ferguson

April 21, 2019 · 5 min read

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Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts

Achieving Team Autonomy not Anarchy

Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

Living in a DR World (Disaster Recovery for the Rest of Us)

The Scale Cube: Achieve Security Through Scalability

Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Mesh

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fuse

Why is launching an MVP so difficult?

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fuse

Results and Outcomes – Why Companies Fail

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