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Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts of the BFF Pattern

Description of the backend for frontend (BFF) Pattern - pros and cons

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The Best Definition of Done for Agile

The definition of done is incomplete if it doesn't include non-functional requirements

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

The 5-95 Rule

Description of the 5-95 Rule and why to spend less time planning and more time executing

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Focus Versus Agility in Business, Product Management and Product Development

Using both focus and agility to achieve desired product outcomes: OKRs, Agile Methods and the Bowling Alley

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Measuring Availability

As a company matures from a startup to a growing business, there are a number of measurables that become table stakes – basic tools for managing a business. These measurables…

Greg Fennewald

· 3 min read

Technical Debt

For over a decade, AKF has been on a number of engagements where we have seen technology organizations put off a large portion of engineering effort wrangling with technical debt.…

AKF

· 2 min read

Learning from Failure: Conducting Postmortems

Learning from your incidents is critical to identifying problems and preventing their recurrence. Use a postmortem process to identify the issues causing problems and get them corrected.

Bill Armelin

· 4 min read

Migrating To The Cloud: Lift and Shift Versus Cloud Native

If your company doesn’t utilize one of the big cloud providers for either IaaS or PaaS as part of product infrastructure, it's only a matter of time. We often find our clients…

Dave Berardi

· 3 min read

The Easiest and Hardest Jobs in Software Companies

The hardest job in software is selling SaaS products - easiest is selling on-premises products

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Architecture Principles: Messaging Systems – Smart End Points, Dumb Pipes

Asynchronous messaging systems are a critical component of many highly scalable and highly available architectures. But, as with any other architectural component, these solutions…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The Fallacies of DR

Disaster Recovery usually doesn't work because it is not tested in real life conditions. There are several patterns to follow that fix this problem.

Bill Armelin

· 5 min read

Hiring the Right Employees

Running a technology company is a challenging endeavor. Not only are consumers demands changing daily, the technology to deliver upon those demands is constantly evolving. Where…

AKF

· 4 min read

Normalization of Deviance and Software...Oh and Nasa

It’s funny how clearly you can remember some events from your childhood. I remember exactly where I was on Jan 28th, 1986.All the kids in Modoc Elementary School had been…

Eric Arrington

· 9 min read

What are Microservices?

Microservices Architecture (aka Microservice Architecture) is an architectural approach emerging from service-oriented architecture. Sometimes called just microservices, the approach…

AKF

· 4 min read

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