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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

April 8, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

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

March 25, 2019 · 3 min read

Architecture

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

March 19, 2019 · 5 min read

Architecture

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

March 15, 2019 · 6 min read

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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

December 4, 2018 · 4 min read

Architecture Organization Process Product

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

November 20, 2018 · 7 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process

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

September 10, 2018 · 6 min read

Architecture Process

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

July 8, 2018 · 4 min read

Architecture

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

June 18, 2018 · 3 min read

Architecture SaaS

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

June 11, 2018 · 4 min read

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Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

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

The AKF Partners Session State Cube

Is the Co-location (colo) Industry Dying?

The AKF Difference

The Importance of QA

Scalability

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

Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures

Multi-Tenant Defined

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