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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…
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Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash This is the second in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s…
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Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash This is the first post in a three-part series on leadership principles for product and tech executives. As with any…
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Microservices Saga Pattern
Saga Overview The saga pattern attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction is…
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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…
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Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern
Event Sourcing Overview Event sourcing is an architectural approach for (typically but not necessarily always) synchronously receiving and subsequently…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Product team checklist for aligning product management and engineering
Image Used by Permission from Photo by Joshua Coleman on Unsplash Building product team alignment is critical for success. One of the most damaging…
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Barriers to Digital Transformations
Travel bans this year have freed up several days a month previously spent in transit to now work with a larger variety of clients, resulting in a greater…