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Technical Due Diligence Best Practices
Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that…
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Where have all the Women gone?
We hear every day that more and more jobs are disappearing, yet the technology job sector cannot keep up with the unprecedented demand. So why are women…
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What Size Should Microservices Be?
It seems that everyone is on the microservice architecture bus these days (splits by the Y axis on the AKF Scale Cube). One question we commonly receive as…
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PDLC or SDLC
As a frequent technology writer I often find myself referring to the method or process that teams use to produce software. The two terms that are usually given…
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Definition of MVP
We often use the term minimum viable product or MVP but do we all agree on what it means? In the Scrum spirt of Definition of Done, I believe the Definition of…
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Splitting Databases for Scale
The most common point of congestion and therefore barrier to scale that we see in our practice is the database. Referring back to our earlier article…
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AKF Turns 10 – And It’s Still Not About the Tech
The caller ID was blocked but Marty had been expecting the call. Three “highly connected” people – donors, political advisers and “inner circle” people – had…