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Defining Platform
As with the word “Cloud”, the word “Platform” is an over-used and far too often underdefined word within our industry (comprised of companies that build…
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Single Page Applications - Fault Isolation and Recovery
In my previous article, Browser Scalability, I addressed the ability of a stateful browser using a stateless strategy to scale web applications and add the…
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Single Page Applications – A New Dimension of Scale
Browsers have not been considered as a compute resource to aid in scalability and fault tolerance. Through the use of modern Java Script frameworks, the…
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A Microservices Saga Choreography Example
In a recent blog post we wrote about the Saga Pattern. Saga attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services…
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Microservices Saga Pattern
Saga Overview The saga pattern attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction is…
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Claim-Check Pattern: When To Split a Large Message Into a Claim-Check and a Payload
The Claim-Check approach is an architectural pattern for creating additional capacity for a message bus by persisting the entire payload into an external…
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Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern
Event Sourcing Overview
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Interim CTO case study: Moving to a Cloud First Strategy at Speed
AKF recently engaged with a large, very successful on-premises solution space to help define and accelerate their public cloud product offering and move to an…
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Microservices Architecture Gateway Pattern - Dos and Don'ts
Gateway Pattern Relationships and Other Names
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Scalability Rules - Reduce Objects to Improve Website Performance (Rule 5)
Every wonder what really makes a website tick? Or why some sites seem slower or faster than expected? Well, rest assured, there are straight-forward answers.…
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What are Microservices?
Microservices Architecture (aka Microservice Architecture) is an architectural approach emerging from service-oriented architecture. Sometimes called just…
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Reduce DNS lookups to improve website performance (Rule 4)
Believe it or not, website speed is directly related to conversion and revenue. One element that delays the time before a user can interact with a website is…