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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

· 4 min read

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

· 2 min read

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

· 4 min read

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

· 3 min read

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

· 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

· 4 min read

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

· 3 min read

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

· 1 min read

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

· 3 min read

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

· 5 min read

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

· 2 min read

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

· 5 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fan Out

This article is the third 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

· 4 min read

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

· 9 min read

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