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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What are Microservices?
Microservices Architecture (aka Microservice Architecture) is an architectural approach emerging from service-oriented architecture. Sometimes called just…
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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…
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Architectural Principle: Use Commodity Hardware (and Cloud tools)
The Tail (pun intended) of Dorothy-Boy the Goldfish When my now-adult son was 5, he was constantly enamored in the pet aisle of the local superstore of the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…