Every organization I’ve worked with has an application inventory problem. The inventory exists — but it lives in a spreadsheet that was accurate six months ago. It’s been forked by four teams. And developers won’t update …

Oracle database migrations are never simple. But they’re increasingly necessary — license costs are punishing, modern alternatives have matured, and the “just renew” option gets more expensive every year. I’ve led …

Some of the most critical business logic in enterprises lives in spreadsheets. Not in applications. Not in databases. In .xlsb files that one person understands, everyone depends on, and nobody dares touch. I recently had to modernize …

Here is a story I keep seeing, in one shape or another. A team decides to build a micro-frontend platform. They start the smart way: a composition-first, builder approach. A shell app loads independent remotes at runtime, each team ships …

Lift-and-shift migrations are never glamorous. But they’re often the right first step — get out of the datacenter, then modernize in the cloud where iteration is cheap. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) handles the replication …

Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ sounds straightforward — “it’s just managed RabbitMQ.” Until you hit the first incompatibility. And the second. And the third. I’ve run enough of these migrations to know that the official docs …

Not every data platform runs on a single cloud. In practice, I keep seeing organizations with CI/CD in Azure DevOps, compute on GCP, and production workloads scattered across providers. The architecture needs to work with this reality, not …

BigQuery migrations are happening at scale. Post-2023 pricing changes led to 25–265% cost increases for many customers, GCP incentive packages are expiring, and enterprises are re-evaluating their data platform strategy. I’ve been …

Picture a sprawling enterprise catalog system, born in an era when monolithic applications ruled. It processes thousands of product queries daily across multiple regions. It has served its purpose for years — but it’s now showing its …

Everyone is building “agents” now. But ask five engineers what an agent actually is and you’ll get six answers. I’ve spent the last year working on agentic systems — from industrial diagnostic agents to workflow …