Cloud and Application Modernization
Technical articles and architecture insights on cloud migration, modernization strategy, legacy transformation and enterprise IT.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Watch the 30-second summary Your browser does not support the video tag. Auto-generated summary — read the full article below for details. When organizations face technical debt and aging systems, a common reflex is to assume that …