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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…
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Microservice Anti-Pattern: Calls in Series (The Xmas Tree Light Anti-Pattern)
This article is the first in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. There are several benefits to carving up very large…
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The AKF Partners Session State Cube
Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, the IETF and the W3C consortium all understood the value of being stateless when they developed the Hyper Text…
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Is the Co-location (colo) Industry Dying?
I’m no Nostradamus when it comes to predicting the future of technology, but some trends are just too blatantly obvious to ignore. Unfortunately, they are only…
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The Importance of QA
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter Drucker The Importance of QA High…
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Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance
Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Most everyone will…
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The Elusive Data Breach
“but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin ...and data breaches. Given the era that Benjamin…
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Putting Customer Interaction First in Software Development
Eat Your Own Dog Food Eating your own dog food is a common phrase that is cynical from the start – unless you like eating dog food! A more positive, but…
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Are you compromised?
It’s important to acknowledge that a core competency for hackers is hiding their tracks and maintaining dormancy for long periods of time after they’ve…
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Scalability
The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability Perhaps the most common question we get at AKF Partners when performing technical due…
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Expanding Agile Throughout
In our experience we have seen how Agile practices provide organizations within successful companies many benefits which is leading to more and more companies…
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The Importance of a Post Mortem
“An incident is a terrible thing to waste” is a common mantra that AKF repeats during its Engagements. And rightfully so as many companies have an incident…