Architecture
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…
Growth Blog
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Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Product
Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology
The two most common types of technology due diligence requests we see at AKF are
Architecture
Microservice Bulkhead Pattern - Dos and Don'ts
Bulkhead Pattern Overview
Architecture
CQRS Pattern - Command Query Responsibility Segregation
CQRS Overview The microservice CQRS Pattern (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) pattern is most commonly employed to help scale what might be otherwise…
Organization
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…
Architecture
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…
Organization
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…
Architecture
Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts
Sidecar Pattern Overview
Architecture
What's the difference between VMs & Containers?
VMs vs Containers
Architecture
Living in a DR World (Disaster Recovery for the Rest of Us)
Disaster Recovery is the bellybutton of the IT world. Everyone has it (or at least in theory) – However, does anyone know if it can be used for anything useful?
Architecture
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…
Architecture
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…