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The Best Definition of Done for Agile

Many of our clients struggle with ensuring that the solutions they create meet the needs of both their business and their customers. The exact symptoms of the above failure vary…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The 5-95 Rule

The Problem – Too Much Planning, Too Little Execution How many of you spend a significant portion of your year planning for the next year, two years, or five years of activities?…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Focus Versus Agility in Business, Product Management and Product Development

Two of the most common statements we hear from our clients are: Business: “Our product and engineering teams lack the agility to quickly pivot to the needs of the business”.…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Measuring Availability

As a company matures from a startup to a growing business, there are a number of measurables that become table stakes – basic tools for managing a business. These measurables…

Greg Fennewald

· 3 min read

Technical Debt

For over a decade, AKF has been on a number of engagements where we have seen technology organizations put off a large portion of engineering effort wrangling with technical debt.…

AKF

· 2 min read

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

· 4 min read

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 clients…

Dave Berardi

· 3 min read

The Easiest and Hardest Jobs in Software Companies

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

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

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 solutions…

Marty Abbott

· 3 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

· 5 min read

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. Where…

AKF

· 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

· 9 min read

What are Microservices?

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

AKF

· 4 min read

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 not suspend…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

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