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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

Architectural Principle: Use Commodity Hardware (and Cloud tools)

The Tail (pun intended) of Dorothy-Boy the GoldfishWhen 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

· 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

· 4 min read

Top 3 Failures in Digital Transformations

Attempting to transform a company to compete effectively in the Digital Economy is difficult to say the least. In the experience of AKF Partners, it is easier to be “born digital”…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The Role of the Business Analyst in Agile

Our clients often ask us the following question: “What is the role of the business analyst in Agile development?” Spoiler Alert: There isn’t a role for the business analyst…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Architectural Principle: Use Mature Technology

A few years back, a senior leader at a previous company decided that being “cutting edge” was a core value we should espouse and so we quickly became the Guinea Pigs of our…

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

If You Are Not Measuring, You Are Not Managing

We are surprised at how often we go into a client and find that management does not have any metrics for their teams. The managers respond that they don’t want to negatively…

Bill Armelin

· 3 min read

The Circuit Breaker Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Circuit Breaker Pattern OverviewThe microservice Circuit Breaker pattern is an automated switch capable of detecting extremely long response times or failures when calling remote…

Marty Abbott

· 2 min read

10 Principles of Digital Transformations

AKF Partners has helped guide companies through digital transformations for over 10 years. We’ve helped traditional brick and mortar service, product, banking and retail companies…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

What is Digital Transformation?

For many years after the introduction of the automobile, most industries benefited from somewhat static and predictable secular forces. Nascent technology forces primarily aided…

AKF

· 4 min read

Data Center Lifespan Risk

As technology professionals, managing risk is an important part of the value we provide to the business. Risk can take many forms, including threats to availability, scalability,…

Greg Fennewald

· 6 min read

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