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Architectural Principles - Fault Isolation & Swimlanes

This is one of several articles on recommended architectural principles and goes into deeper depth to our post on the AKF Scale Cube made reference to a concept that we call “Fault…

Pete Ferguson

July 1, 2019 · 5 min read

Leadership Organization Product

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 areProduct Technology Due DiligenceInformation Technology, or IT, Due Diligence. Both types are very…

Roger Andelin

June 28, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Bulkhead Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Bulkhead Pattern Overview Bulkheads in ships separate components or sections of a ship such that if one portion of a ship is breached, flooding can be contained to that section. …

Marty Abbott

June 27, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

CQRS Pattern - Command Query Responsibility Segregation

CQRS Overview The microservice CQRS Pattern (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) pattern is most commonly employed to help scale what might be otherwise monolithic datastores. …

Marty Abbott

June 24, 2019 · 3 min read

SaaS Organization Process Security

Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

Transforming a traditional on-premise 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

June 19, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Microservices

Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts

Strangler Pattern Overview The microservice Strangler pattern is employed when teams migrate functionality from an old solution to one or more new implementations. While…

Marty Abbott

June 12, 2019 · 3 min read

Organization

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…

AKF

June 10, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Microservices

Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts

Sidecar Pattern Overview The sidecar pattern is meant to allow the deployment of components of an application into separate, isolated, and encapsulated processes or containers. …

Marty Abbott

June 5, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process Product

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

VMs vs Containers Inefficiency and down time have traditionally kept CTO’s and IT decision makers up at night. Now, new challenges are emerging driven by infrastructure…

Eric Arrington

May 29, 2019 · 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…

Pete Ferguson

May 22, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Security

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…

AKF

May 14, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

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…

Marty Abbott

May 8, 2019 · 1 min read

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Architectural Principles - Fault Isolation & Swimlanes

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

Microservice Bulkhead Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

CQRS Pattern - Command Query Responsibility Segregation

Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts

Achieving Team Autonomy not Anarchy

Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

Living in a DR World (Disaster Recovery for the Rest of Us)

The Scale Cube: Achieve Security Through Scalability

Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Mesh

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