Category: Architecture

Microservice Architecture Principle: One or Zero Databases Per Service

This post is a deeper dive on the AKF Microservice Architecture Principle “One or Zero Databases per Service”. The Predicates Microservice and services-oriented architectures…

Marty Abbott

May 17, 2022 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

Microservice Architecture Principles

When product and engineering teams are small and tight knit, they often share an unspoken and undocumented set of principles that guide their development. The principles arise…

Marty Abbott

March 29, 2022 · 11 min read

Architecture Microservices CEO Guides

CEO Guide To Breaking Up The Monolith

WHAT IS A MONOLITH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ITS IMPACT TO THE BUSINESS?You may have noticed your engineering teams are too slow or your CTO has been complaining about…

Dave Berardi

March 11, 2022 · 6 min read

Architecture Leadership Organization

Why You Need an Architecture Team

One of the most concerning trends we’ve seen lately is the nearly complete elimination of architecture teams. We’ve unfortunately seen several clients go down the path of eliminating…

Marty Abbott

March 9, 2022 · 8 min read

Architecture Leadership Process

It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!

Do software initiatives such maintenance, upgrades and refactoring fall under the umbrella of Technical Debt? Perhaps a trick question, but when this body of work is planned proactively…

Heather Abbott

July 23, 2021 · 6 min read

Architecture

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 dimension of fault isolation.…

David Blatherwick

June 4, 2021 · 5 min read

Architecture

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 browser is now an integral…

David Blatherwick

May 28, 2021 · 12 min read

Architecture Microservices

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 when a transaction…

Dave Berardi

March 10, 2021 · 3 min read

Architecture Microservices

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 datastore and only sending…

Dave Berardi

February 8, 2021 · 2 min read

Architecture Process Product

Architectural Principles: Build vs. Buy

In many of our technical due diligence engagements, it is common to find that companies are building tools with considerable development effort (and ongoing maintenance) for something…

Pete Ferguson

April 9, 2020 · 5 min read

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Category: Architecture

Microservice Architecture Principle: One or Zero Databases Per Service

Microservice Architecture Principles

CEO Guide To Breaking Up The Monolith

Why You Need an Architecture Team

It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!

Single Page Applications - Fault Isolation and Recovery

Single Page Applications – A New Dimension of Scale

A Microservices Saga Choreography Example

Claim-Check Pattern: When To Split a Large Message Into a Claim-Check and a Payload

Architectural Principles: Build vs. Buy

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