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What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

Latency can have a big impact on your bottom line. Understanding the root causes latency and strategies on how to fix latency is

Eric Arrington

· 9 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

Microservice Anti-Pattern regarding services that fan out to other services

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Calls in Series (The Xmas Tree Light Anti-Pattern)

The multiplicative effect of failure and how it creates an anti-pattern of serialized calls in microservices architectures.

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The AKF Partners Session State Cube

Prescriptive and descriptive model for evaluation of session and state in services

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

The Crippling Cost of Distractions

Distractions are way beyond annoying - they are crippling to your organization's ability to compete. Young startups and the competition are always looking for ways to outmaneuver sleeping giants. Focus your A-Team on new product development and remain focuses on what makes your organization the best tomorrow in addition to keeping the lights on today.

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

Is the Co-location (colo) Industry Dying?

Is the colocation industry dying? Meta economic factors affecting colos

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

5 Statements That Should Get CISOs Fired

5 Statements That Should Get a CISO Fired

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

The AKF Difference

Here are the reasons you should, or should not, hire AKF Partners.

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The Importance of QA

Quality assurance is the planned and systematic set of activities that ensure that software processes and products conform to requirements, standards, and procedures.

AKF

· 8 min read

Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance

Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Improve software development team performance by tracking velocity and business value created.

Roger Andelin

· 6 min read

The Elusive Data Breach

“but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin...and data breaches. Given the era that Benjamin Franklin lived in the concept…

AKF

· 5 min read

Putting Customer Interaction First in Software Development

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing … and your customers/end users are THE Main Thing! Agile development provides the ongoing opportunity to comb the backlog and prioritize projects that have the most customer (shareholder, and hopefully employee) value. So make sure the efforts of your team and your organization are laser focused on what will immediately provide the maximum customer value. This will provide the needed profits to hire more staff and provide room to add in non-functional requirements and R&D projects as part of the larger, ongoing development proces

Pete Ferguson

· 7 min read

A Financial Analogy for Technical Debt

When considering technical debt, treat it similar to financial debt. Some debt is good and allows you to get to market quicker. Too much debt results in availability and scalability problems.

Bill Armelin

· 8 min read

The Domino or Multiplicative Effect of Failure

AKF Partners Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews uncover a company’s system architecture, process, and organization layout. Without ever stepping foot at a client we can begin to see the forensic evidence of potential problems which are included in this article.

Pete Ferguson

· 6 min read

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