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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.
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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…
Architecture
The Domino or Multiplicative Effect of Failure
As part of our Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews, we always want to see a company’s system architecture, understand their process, and review…
Architecture
Scalability
The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability
Architecture
AKF Scale Cube: Ze Case for Z Axis
Contemplating how to scale your website is not often a paramount concern in the early days when the focus is on time to market and core functionality. Growth…
Architecture
Monitoring the Good, the Bad, the Ugly for Improved Fault Detection
AKF often recommends to our clients the adoption of business metric monitoring – the use of high-level user activity or transaction patterns that can often…
Architecture
Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures
In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a…
Architecture
Multi-Tenant Defined
Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy.
Architecture
4 Landmines When Using Serverless Architecture
Physical Bare Metal, Virtualization, Cloud Compute, Containers, and now Serverless in your SaaS? We are starting to hear more and more about Serverless…
Architecture
The Problem with Non-Functional Requirements
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Evaluating Technology Risk Using Mathematics
The Relative Risk Equation
Architecture
Microservices for Breadth, Libraries for Depth
The decomposition of monoliths into services, or alternatively the development of new products in a services-oriented fashion (oftentimes called…