Engineering deep-dives and strategic analysis on legacy modernization. New post every week.
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.
A modernization firm's framework for deciding what not to modernize: change-rate triage, nine dispositions, a weighted scoring model and a worked example.
Strangler fig migrations routinely plateau at 30-50% and never finish. Here is why the stall happens and how to design an exit condition before sprint one.
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