Leadership
Leadership Anti-Patterns
The world of software development is all abuzz with the notion of patterns and anti-patterns. Patterns are something we endeavor to follow and propagate as a…
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Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 3
This is the final post in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles of team…
Architecture
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…
Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2
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Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders
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Architecture
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…
Architecture
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…
Architecture
Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern
Event Sourcing Overview
Architecture
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…
Organization
When to hire an interim or fractional CTO
There comes a time when most CEOs consider hiring an interim CTO. There are four main cirumstances when this occurs. And in each situation, a different CTO…
Leadership
CEO Guide: How to hire a great CTO
Welcome to our series of CEO Guides. These articles provide a short guide on key technology topics, reflecting the common questions we are asked by CEOs as…
Organization
CTO Hiring Checklist
Whether you are considering a fractional CTO, an interim CTO, a full time CTO, or you just want to “coach up” your current CTO this list is a good place to…