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Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

This article is the second in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In Series, covers the benefits…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

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

This article is the first in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. There are several benefits to carving up very large applications into service-oriented…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The AKF Partners Session State Cube

Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, the IETF and the W3C consortium all understood the value of being stateless when they developed the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. Stateless…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Is the Co-location (colo) Industry Dying?

I’m no Nostradamus when it comes to predicting the future of technology, but some trends are just too blatantly obvious to ignore. Unfortunately, they are only easy to spot if…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

The AKF Difference

During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we consider hiring you?”,…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The Importance of QA

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter DruckerThe Importance of QAHigh levels of quality are essential…

AKF

· 7 min read

Scalability

The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability Perhaps the most common question we get at AKF Partners when performing technical due diligence on a company is, “Will…

AKF

· 6 min read

Monitoring the Good, the Bad, the Ugly for Improved Fault Detection

AKF often recommends to our clients the adoption of business metric monitoring – the use of high-level user activity or transaction patterns that can often provide early warning…

AKF

· 4 min read

Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures

In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a fairly new upstart…

Pete Ferguson

· 3 min read

Multi-Tenant Defined

Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy.Most people have a definition in their mind for the term “multi-tenant”.…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

4 Landmines When Using Serverless Architecture

Physical Bare Metal, Virtualization, Cloud Compute, Containers, and now Serverless in your SaaS? We are starting to hear more and more about Serverless computing. Sometimes you…

Dave Berardi

· 2 min read

The Scale Cube

The Scale Cube is a model for segmenting services, defining microservices and scaling products. It also creates a common language for teams to discuss scale related options in…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Microservices for Breadth, Libraries for Depth

The decomposition of monoliths into services, or alternatively the development of new products in a services-oriented fashion (oftentimes called microservices), is one of the greatest…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

SaaS Migration Challenges

More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS, agile world. SaaS…

Dave Swenson

· 6 min read

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