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Leadership Anti-Patterns

The world of software development is all abuzz with the notion of patterns and anti-patterns. Patterns are something we endeavor to follow and propagate as a best practice or path…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 3

This is the final post in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles of team dynamics and behaviors…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

A Microservices Saga Choreography Example

In a recent blog post we wrote about the Saga Pattern. Saga attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction…

Dave Berardi

· 3 min read

CEO Guide to Product

Photo by airfocus.Welcome to our series of CEO Guides. The aim of these articles is to provide a short guide on key technology topics. These reflect the common questions we are…

Tanya Cordrey

· 8 min read

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2

Photo by Jehyun Sung on UnsplashThis is the second in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders

Photo by Jehyun Sung on UnsplashThis is the first post in a three-part series on leadership principles for product and tech executives. As with any principle, these are meant to…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Claim-Check Pattern: When To Split a Large Message Into a Claim-Check and a Payload

The Claim-Check approach is an architectural pattern for creating additional capacity for a message bus by persisting the entire payload into an external datastore and only sending…

Dave Berardi

· 2 min read

Microservices Saga Pattern

Saga OverviewThe saga pattern attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction is comprised of several distributed…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern

Event Sourcing Overview Event sourcing is an architectural approach for (typically but not necessarily always) synchronously receiving and subsequently asynchronously distributing…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Interim CTO case study: Moving to a Cloud First Strategy at Speed

AKF recently engaged with a large, very successful on-premises solution space to help define and accelerate their public cloud product offering and move to an "as a service" model.…

Heather Abbott

· 8 min read

When to hire an interim or fractional CTO

There comes a time when most CEOs consider hiring an interim CTO.  There are four main cirumstances when this occurs. And in each situation, a different CTO leadership profile…

Tanya Cordrey

· 5 min read

CEO Guide: How to hire a great CTO

Welcome to our series of CEO Guides. These articles provide a short guide on key technology topics, reflecting the common questions we are asked by CEOs as well as providing an…

Tanya Cordrey

· 7 min read

CTO Hiring Checklist

Whether you are considering a fractional CTO, an interim CTO, a full time CTO, or you just want to “coach up” your current CTO this list is a good place to start to help you…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Product team checklist for aligning product management and engineering

Image Used by Permission from Photo by Joshua Coleman on UnsplashBuilding product team alignment is critical for success. One of the most damaging situations is when the product…

Tanya Cordrey

· 6 min read

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