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It seems that everyone is on the microservice architecture bus these days (splits by the Y axis on the AKF Scale Cube). One question we commonly receive as companies create…
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A topic that often results in great debate is “how to measure engineers?” I’m a pretty data driven guy so I’m a fan of metrics as long as they are 1) measured correctly…
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The most common point of congestion and therefore barrier to scale that we see in our practice is the database. Referring back to our earlier article “Splitting Applications…
Splitting Applications or Services for Scale Most internet enabled products start their life as a single application running on an appserver or appserver/webserver combination…
As a frequent technology writer I often find myself referring to the method or process that teams use to produce software. The two terms that are usually given for this are software…
We often use the term minimum viable product or MVP but do we all agree on what it means? In the Scrum spirt of Definition of Done, I believe the Definition of MVP is worth stating…
The caller ID was blocked but Marty had been expecting the call. Three “highly connected” people – donors, political advisers and “inner circle” people – …
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