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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Role of Architectural Principles in Software Development and Systems Development
You wouldn’t (hopefully) think of building a house without first sitting down with an architect to come up with a good plan. While building a house is a…
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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…
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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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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 Product Technology Due Diligence Information Technology, or IT, Due…
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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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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…
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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…