CEO Guide to Domain Driven Design - Leading a Digital Transformation

Architectural Principle: Use Mature Technology

A few years back, a senior leader at a previous company decided that being “cutting edge” was a core value we should espouse and so we quickly became the Guinea Pigs of our…

Pete Ferguson

July 11, 2019 · 2 min read

Leadership Process

If You Are Not Measuring, You Are Not Managing

We are surprised at how often we go into a client and find that management does not have any metrics for their teams. The managers respond that they don’t want to negatively…

Bill Armelin

July 10, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

The Circuit Breaker Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Circuit Breaker Pattern OverviewThe microservice Circuit Breaker pattern is an automated switch capable of detecting extremely long response times or failures when calling remote…

Marty Abbott

July 8, 2019 · 2 min read

10 Principles of Digital Transformations

AKF Partners has helped guide companies through digital transformations for over 10 years. We’ve helped traditional brick and mortar service, product, banking and retail companies…

Marty Abbott

July 3, 2019 · 5 min read

Product

What is Digital Transformation?

For many years after the introduction of the automobile, most industries benefited from somewhat static and predictable secular forces. Nascent technology forces primarily aided…

AKF

July 3, 2019 · 4 min read

Process

Data Center Lifespan Risk

As technology professionals, managing risk is an important part of the value we provide to the business. Risk can take many forms, including threats to availability, scalability,…

Greg Fennewald

July 1, 2019 · 6 min read

Architecture

Role of Architectural Principles in Software Development and Systems Development

You wouldn’t (hopefully) think of building a house without first sitting down with an architect to come up with a good plan. While building a house is a waterfall process, that…

Pete Ferguson

July 1, 2019 · 2 min read

Architecture

Architectural Principles - Fault Isolation & Swimlanes

This is one of several articles on recommended architectural principles and goes into deeper depth to our post on the AKF Scale Cube made reference to a concept that we call “Fault…

Pete Ferguson

July 1, 2019 · 5 min read

Leadership Organization Product

Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology

The two most common types of technology due diligence requests we see at AKF are Product Technology Due DiligenceInformation Technology, or IT, Due Diligence.Both types are very…

Roger Andelin

June 28, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Bulkhead Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Bulkhead Pattern Overview Bulkheads in ships separate components or sections of a ship such that if one portion of a ship is breached, flooding can be contained to that section.…

Marty Abbott

June 27, 2019 · 2 min read

Architecture Microservices

CQRS Pattern - Command Query Responsibility Segregation

CQRS Overview The microservice CQRS Pattern (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) pattern is most commonly employed to help scale what might be otherwise monolithic datastores.…

Marty Abbott

June 24, 2019 · 3 min read

SaaS Organization Process Security

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

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Architectural Principle: Use Mature Technology

If You Are Not Measuring, You Are Not Managing

The Circuit Breaker Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

10 Principles of Digital Transformations

What is Digital Transformation?

Data Center Lifespan Risk

Role of Architectural Principles in Software Development and Systems Development

Architectural Principles - Fault Isolation & Swimlanes

Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology

Microservice Bulkhead Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

CQRS Pattern - Command Query Responsibility Segregation

Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

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