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The Circuit Breaker Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Circuit Breaker Pattern Overview The microservice Circuit Breaker pattern is an automated switch capable of detecting extremely long response times or…

Architecture

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…

Architecture

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…

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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…

Architecture

Architectural Principles - Fault Isolation & Swimlanes

This is one of several articles on recommended architectural principles and goes into deeper depth to our post on the AKF Scale Cube made reference to a…

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Microservice Bulkhead Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Bulkhead Pattern Overview Bulkheads in ships separate components or sections of a ship such that if one portion of a ship is breached, flooding can be…

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Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

Transforming a traditional on-premises product and company to a SaaS model is currently in vogue and has many broad-reaching benefits for both producers and…

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Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts

Strangler Pattern Overview The microservice Strangler pattern is employed when teams migrate functionality from an old solution to one or more new…

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Achieving Team Autonomy not Anarchy

Agile teams sometimes struggle with the meaning and value of autonomy within a team. Is it the autonomy to decide how best to accomplish a goal? Is it the…