Cloud and Application Modernization
Technical articles and architecture insights on cloud migration, modernization strategy, legacy transformation and enterprise IT.
The hardest part of building software is not writing code. It’s understanding what to build. I’ve facilitated dozens of workshops with enterprise teams — some building new products, some untangling decades of legacy processes. …
Originally published on the AWS Builder Center. Republished here with light formatting adjustments. TL;DR — Transformation isn’t new; AI just makes it faster. The same five-phase framework (Assessment → Target roadmap → Preparation → …
You cannot improve what you do not measure. This principle applies to code quality, system performance, and — critically — cloud modernization programs. Yet most organizations run multi-year, multi-million-euro transformation programs with …
After delivering dozens of technical talks — from 50-person meetups to 2000-seat conference keynotes — I have made every messaging mistake in the book. Some were recoverable. Some resulted in blog posts quoting me wildly out of context. One …
Every enterprise has them: critical business calculations running in Excel workbooks that have grown into unmaintainable monsters. Hundreds of formulas, cross-sheet references, VBA macros, and a single owner who is terrified of breaking …
PowerBuilder applications are the cockroaches of enterprise software. I do not mean that disparagingly — they survive everything. Economic downturns, technology shifts, organizational restructuring, multiple failed “rip and …
Hybrid cloud architectures connecting Azure and AWS through site-to-site VPN tunnels are increasingly common. What is far less common is proper monitoring of those tunnels. Most teams configure the VPN, verify it works once, and then …
When a machine shows symptoms, technicians need to figure out the root cause and the best way to fix it. Today, this knowledge lives in the heads of experienced engineers and is scattered across thousands of unstructured service reports of …
For years, I have been working on software and architecture modernization. Mostly existing systems. Sometimes brand new products. This week made one thing painfully clear: RTO is not an operational problem. It is an architectural one.
Authentication migration is one of the highest-risk tasks in any platform transition. Users cannot be told “please re-register.” Passwords cannot be extracted from Firebase. And federated identity providers add another layer of …