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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

August 22, 2019 · 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

August 21, 2019 · 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

August 20, 2019 · 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

July 31, 2019 · 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

July 29, 2019 · 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

July 29, 2019 · 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

July 26, 2019 · 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

July 22, 2019 · 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

July 21, 2019 · 4 min read

Implementing Scalable, Highly Available Messaging Services

How to implement scalable and highly available messaging services

Marty Abbott

July 19, 2019 · 3 min read

Architectural Principle: Use Commodity Hardware (and Cloud tools)

At AKF we often use the analogy of “goldfish, not thoroughbreds” with our clients to help them make decisions on hardware and software solutions. Goldfish (1U servers that can be easily purchased and provisioned) are much easier to add more of and/or replace than thoroughbreds (large Oracle or IBM boxes that take months to purchase and provision).

Pete Ferguson

July 18, 2019 · 5 min read