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Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts

Sidecar Pattern Overview The sidecar pattern is meant to allow the deployment of components of an application into separate, isolated, and encapsulated…

Architecture

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

VMs vs Containers Inefficiency and down time have traditionally kept CTO’s and IT decision makers up at night. Now, new challenges are emerging driven by…

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The Scale Cube: Achieve Security Through Scalability

If AKF Partners had to be known for one thing and one thing only it would be the Scale Cube. An ingenious little model designed for companies to identify how…

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Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Mesh

This article is the sixth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

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Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fuse

This article is the fifth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

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Why is launching an MVP so difficult?

Have you ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs…

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Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fuse

This article is the fourth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

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Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fan Out

This article is the third in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

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What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

Time it takes to boil an egg: 720,000 milliseconds Average time in line at the supermarket: 240,000 milliseconds Time it takes to brush your teeth:…

Architecture

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

This article is the second in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…