Architecture
Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts
Strangler Pattern Overview The microservice Strangler pattern is employed when teams migrate functionality from an old solution to one or more new…
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Organization
Achieving Team Autonomy not Anarchy
Agile teams sometimes struggle with the meaning and value of autonomy within a team. Is it the autonomy to decide how best to accomplish a goal? Is it the…
Architecture
Sidecar Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts
Sidecar Pattern Overview
Architecture
What's the difference between VMs & Containers?
VMs vs Containers
Architecture
Living in a DR World (Disaster Recovery for the Rest of Us)
Disaster Recovery is the bellybutton of the IT world. Everyone has it (or at least in theory) – However, does anyone know if it can be used for anything useful?
Architecture
The Scale Cube: Achieve Security Through Scalability
If AKF Partners had to be known for one thing and one thing only it would be the Scale Cube. An ingenious little model designed for companies to identify how…
Architecture
Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fuse
This article is the fifth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…
Architecture
Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Mesh
This article is the sixth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…
Product
Why is launching an MVP so difficult?
Have you ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs &…
Architecture
Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fuse
This article is the fourth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…
Organization
Results and Outcomes – Why Companies Fail
Results = Results
Architecture
Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fan Out
This article is the third in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…