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Guide to Optimizing Your Relational Data Model (Scalability Rule #31)
The base of this discussion is about building and maintaining a healthy data model. If executed improperly you may find yourself in a costly situation when…
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Scalability Rule 39: Feature Flags
In the book Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Websites (Abbott & Fisher), Chapter 9 (Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure) includes rule 39,…
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If It's Not Observable, It Can't be Released – Design To Be Monitored
Design To Be Monitored is one of those AKF architectural principles that resonates with many product engineering teams. After all, high availability,…
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Security Anti-Pattern: Firewall Frenzy (Firewalls, Firewalls Everywhere!)
This article is one of a series of security anti-patterns commonly found in our experience and during technical due diligences for investors, and workshops…
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Microservice Architecture Principle: One or Zero Databases Per Service
This post is a deeper dive on the AKF Microservice Architecture Principle “One or Zero Databases per Service”. The Predicates Microservice and…
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Microservice Architecture Principles
When product and engineering teams are small and tight knit, they often share an unspoken and undocumented set of principles that guide their development. The…
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CEO Guide To Breaking Up The Monolith
WHAT IS A MONOLITH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ITS IMPACT TO THE BUSINESS? You may have noticed your engineering teams are too slow or your CTO has…
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Why You Need an Architecture Team
One of the most concerning trends we’ve seen lately is the nearly complete elimination of architecture teams. We’ve unfortunately seen several clients go down…
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CEO Guide to Managing Tech Debt and Overall Platform Health
What is Technical Debt and how does it relate to overall application health?
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CEO Guide to Microservices
What are Microservices?
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The Platform Mindset
This is the second part in a multi-part series on platform engineering, and platform product management.