CEO Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance

Learning from Failure: Conducting Postmortems

At AKF Partners, we believe in learning aggressively, not just from your successes, but also your failures. One common failure we see are service disrupting incidents. These are…

Bill Armelin

August 21, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture SaaS

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…

Dave Berardi

August 20, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture

AKF Scale Cube Explained – Cloud Scalability Rules

Scalability doesn’t somehow magically appear when you trust a cloud provider to host your systems. While Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others likely will be able to provide…

Pete Ferguson

August 7, 2019 · 5 min read

SaaS

The Easiest and Hardest Jobs in Software Companies

The Easiest Job Hands down, the easiest job in any company that produces software for on-premise delivery is the sales job. Everything is magically aligned to make this job “easy”…

Marty Abbott

July 31, 2019 · 5 min read

Architecture Microservices

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…

Marty Abbott

July 29, 2019 · 4 min read

The Fallacies of DR

On February 7, 2019, Wells Fargo experienced a major service interruption to its customer facing applications. The bank blamed a power shutdown at one of its data centers in response…

Bill Armelin

July 29, 2019 · 5 min read

Organization

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. …

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

Microservices

What are Microservices?

Microservices Architecture (aka Microservice Architecture) is an architectural approach emerging from service-oriented architecture. Sometimes called just microservices,…

AKF

July 21, 2019 · 5 min read

Architecture

Implementing Scalable, Highly Available Messaging Services

When AKF Partners uses the term asynchronous, we use it in the logical rather than the physical (transport mechanism) sense. Solutions that communicate asynchronously do…

Marty Abbott

July 19, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture

Architectural Principle: Use Commodity Hardware (and Cloud tools)

The Tail (pun intended) of Dorothy-Boy the Goldfish When my now-adult son was 5, he was constantly enamored in the pet aisle of the local superstore of the vast variety of fish…

Pete Ferguson

July 18, 2019 · 5 min read

Enhancing your Product Security Posture and Shifting Left

It’s never been a better time to be a hacker or developer of malware as nearly every company has or is moving core functionality online and this makes these assets an open target…

AKF

July 15, 2019 · 4 min read

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Learning from Failure: Conducting Postmortems

Migrating To The Cloud: Lift and Shift Versus Cloud Native

AKF Scale Cube Explained – Cloud Scalability Rules

The Easiest and Hardest Jobs in Software Companies

Architecture Principles: Messaging Systems – Smart End Points, Dumb Pipes

The Fallacies of DR

Hiring the Right Employees

Normalization of Deviance and Software...Oh and Nasa

What are Microservices?

Implementing Scalable, Highly Available Messaging Services

Architectural Principle: Use Commodity Hardware (and Cloud tools)

Enhancing your Product Security Posture and Shifting Left

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