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What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You
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Architecture
Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out
This article is the second in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…
Architecture
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.
Architecture
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…
Organization
The Crippling Cost of Distractions
The Crippling Cost of Distractions Perhaps the biggest thief of progress is the misuse of time. Not talking about laziness here – I’m referring to what we…
Operations
Is the Co-location (colo) Industry Dying?
I’m no Nostradamus when it comes to predicting the future of technology, but some trends are just too blatantly obvious to ignore. Unfortunately, they are only…
Leadership
5 Statements That Should Get CISOs Fired
Our typical assessment goes something like this: We spend 1.75 days with an energized product team comprised of engineers and product managers. We feel the…
Organization
The AKF Difference
During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we…
Leadership
The Importance of QA
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter Drucker
Process
Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance
Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Most everyone will…
Security
The Elusive Data Breach
“but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin ...and data breaches. Given the era that Benjamin Franklin…
Product
Putting Customer Interaction First in Software Development
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