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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

CQRS Pattern - Command Query Responsibility Segregation

The command and query responsibility segregation pattern dos and donts

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

Transitioning from an on premises to SaaS product and company is not just a technology shift. The whole company requires changes to be successful.

AKF

· 4 min read

Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts

Explanation of the Strangler Pattern - How to use it and what to avoid

Marty Abbott

· 2 min read

Achieving Team Autonomy not Anarchy

Knowing how to achieve Agile Team autonomy over anarchy can be vital to successful operations.

AKF

· 4 min read

Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts

Sidecar is a wonderful pattern to solve many shared component problems - but it should not be used to load balance endpoints

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)

Growing your site requires solid architectural tools that are applied uniformly and consistently. In AKF's 12 plus years of Technical Due Diligence, workshops, and long term engagements, we've seen that almost all inhibitors of scale, reliability, and growth point back to poor execution of sound architectural principles.

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

Microservice Anti-Pattern The Service Mesh - why not to use and how to fix

Marty Abbott

· 1 min read

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