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What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

Time it takes to boil an egg: 720,000 millisecondsAverage time in line at the supermarket: 240,000 millisecondsTime it takes to brush your teeth: 120,000 millisecondsTime it takes…

Eric Arrington

April 19, 2019 · 9 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

This article is the second 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 8, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Calls in Series (The Xmas Tree Light Anti-Pattern)

This article is the first in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. There are several benefits to carving up very large applications into service-oriented…

Marty Abbott

March 25, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture

The AKF Partners Session State Cube

Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, the IETF and the W3C consortium all understood the value of being stateless when they developed the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. Stateless…

Marty Abbott

March 19, 2019 · 6 min read

Organization

The Crippling Cost of Distractions

The Crippling Cost of DistractionsPerhaps the biggest thief of progress is the misuse of time. Not talking about laziness here – I’m referring to what we often see with our…

Pete Ferguson

March 19, 2019 · 5 min read

Architecture

Is the Co-location (colo) Industry Dying?

I’m no Nostradamus when it comes to predicting the future of technology, but some trends are just too blatantly obvious to ignore. Unfortunately, they are only easy to spot if…

Marty Abbott

March 15, 2019 · 6 min read

Security

5 Statements That Should Get CISOs Fired

Our typical assessment goes something like this: We spend 1.75 days with an energized product team comprised of engineers and product managers. We feel the passion and engagement…

Marty Abbott

March 6, 2019 · 5 min read

Organization

Seed, Feed, Weed

The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has 5 truths that they live by. All of them have guided SOCOM to be the premier fighting force in the world and they all center…

AKF

December 6, 2018 · 4 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence SaaS Leadership Organization Process Product Big Data Security

The AKF Difference

During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we consider hiring you?”,…

Marty Abbott

December 4, 2018 · 4 min read

Architecture Organization Process Product

The Importance of QA

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter DruckerThe Importance of QAHigh levels of quality are essential…

AKF

November 20, 2018 · 8 min read

Leadership Process

Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance

Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Most everyone will agree that a high…

Roger Andelin

November 20, 2018 · 6 min read

Security

The Elusive Data Breach

“but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin...and data breaches. Given the era that Benjamin Franklin lived in the concept…

AKF

November 15, 2018 · 5 min read

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What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Calls in Series (The Xmas Tree Light Anti-Pattern)

The AKF Partners Session State Cube

The Crippling Cost of Distractions

Is the Co-location (colo) Industry Dying?

5 Statements That Should Get CISOs Fired

Seed, Feed, Weed

The AKF Difference

The Importance of QA

Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance

The Elusive Data Breach

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