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App Modernisation

Legacy modernisation patterns, cloud-native re-architecture, strangler-fig migrations, and application platform evolution.

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App Modernisation5 November 20248 min read

AI for Legacy Modernisation — Beyond the Code Translation Demos

AI-assisted legacy modernisation is being pitched as transformative. The reality is that AI accelerates parts of a modernisation programme that were never the bottleneck. The hard parts remain hard.

App Modernisation18 July 20238 min read

Modernization Frameworks for Legacy Systems

The 6R model has become the default vocabulary for legacy modernization, but the framework only describes the choices. Choosing well between them requires honesty about the system, the team, and the strategic context. A practitioner view of what each R actually costs in delivery.

App Modernisation11 January 20238 min read

Cloud-Native Enterprise Modernization

Cloud-native modernization is rarely a re-platforming exercise and almost never a wholesale rewrite. A practitioner framework for what actually changes — and a candid look at where cloud-native produces compounding value versus where the term has become marketing dust.

App Modernisation8 November 20228 min read

SOA Modernization for Enterprises

Service-Oriented Architecture has acquired baggage that obscures what it got right. A practitioner's view of what survives, what should be retired, and what the next generation of API-led and event-driven architectures actually inherited from SOA.

App Modernisation17 October 20228 min read

Modernizing Legacy Middleware Platforms

Legacy middleware modernisation rarely succeeds when treated as a platform migration. The high-leverage work is in the operating model, the document strategy, and the boundary discipline — most of which can be done without replacing anything.