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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

· 5 min read

Enhancing your Product Security Posture and Shifting Left

Enhancing your Product Security Posture and Shifting Left to Inform Developers Early

AKF

· 4 min read

Top 3 Failures in Digital Transformations

The Top 3 Digital Transformation Failures to Avoid

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The Role of the Business Analyst in Agile

The business analyst and their role in Agile: Spoiler Alert: There isn't one

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Architectural Principle: Use Mature Technology

Use Mature Technology - When choosing to buy a solution that is not part of your competitive advantage, choose a proven product. Why? Becoming an early adopter of software or systems to be on the cutting edge also means being on the leading edge of finding all the bugs with that software or system. However, waiting too long also loses competitive advantage as key resources are used to nurse along an outdated product instead of innovating the next-gen platform, application, or service.

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

If You Are Not Measuring, You Are Not Managing

Managers that don't measure their team's performance metrics are not managing their teams properly. Here is a list to help choose the right metric.

Bill Armelin

· 3 min read

The Circuit Breaker Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Microservice Architecture Circuit Breaker Pattern Description

Marty Abbott

· 2 min read

10 Principles of Digital Transformations

10 Principles for Digital Transformation

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

What is Digital Transformation?

For many years after the introduction of the automobile, most industries benefited from somewhat static and predictable secular forces. Nascent technology forces primarily aided…

AKF

· 4 min read

Data Center Lifespan Risk

As technology professionals, managing risk is an important part of the value we provide to the business. Risk can take many forms, including threats to availability, scalability,…

Greg Fennewald

· 6 min read

Role of Architectural Principles in Software Development and Systems Development

Properly designed, your products, services, applications, and websites follow agreed-upon architectural principles for reliability, scalability, and high availability.

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

Architectural Principles - Fault Isolation & Swimlanes

Continuing our articles on architectural principles, we dive into how to isolate services, applications, and infrastructure into separate and isolated fault zones also called swim lanes.

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology

The two most common types of technology due diligence requests we see at AKF are 1) Product Technology due diligence and 2) Information Technology, or IT, due diligence. Both types are very different from each other, but often get mixed up with each other. This article will explain the differences between Product Technology and Information Technology and why understanding the difference is critical to a company’s success and profitability.

Roger Andelin

· 4 min read

Microservice Bulkhead Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

The microservice bulkhead pattern and how to employ it

Marty Abbott

· 2 min read

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