Engineering deep-dives and strategic analysis on legacy modernization. New post every week.
Conway's Law decides your modernization outcome. How to spot a distributed monolith, restructure teams first, and keep legacy knowledge from walking out.
Cloud bills often rise after modernization. Here is why lift-and-shift inverts the economics, and how FinOps, unit economics and correct sequencing fix it.
Mainframe, NonStop, COBOL, and core and payments package costs rise every year for banks. Here's the full cost picture and how to move off them safely.
A practical guide to the four real options for an aging system, what each one costs in time and risk, when to pick it, and where Gen AI and deterministic transformation each belong.
The people who understand COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, and other legacy languages are retiring faster than they can be replaced. This is what that costs, why hiring won't fix it on its own, and the response that actually shrinks the problem.
Modernization business cases die in the CFO's office, not the CIO's, because they are written in engineering currency and submitted to a process that only clears three kinds of argument.
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