Legacy Modernization
Strategies for modernizing legacy systems without breaking what works.
AI reads COBOL better than it writes Java
9 Nov 2026
Vendors are selling million-line COBOL migrations in months. IBM's own peer-reviewed pipeline reports a median functional score above 75 percent. On a system
Does the strangler pattern survive cheap code?
26 Oct 2026
I once proposed strangling a PHP front end endpoint by endpoint behind a pass-through layer. Most of that plan was scaffolding built to be thrown away. If
From Legacy to Future-Ready – Modernising a Desktop Application into a Scalable Web Platform
8 Jan 2026
I look back fondly at my time with this company. It offered a great deal of personal and professional development. As I navigated the...
Why I Still Believe in the Web Forms to MVC Rewrite: A Case for Transitional Architecture
28 Dec 2025
Modernisation projects are often framed in extremes: you either rewrite everything from scratch or do nothing at all. But real-world...
From Legacy Systems to Modern APIs: Rebuilding for Performance at HCD
14 Dec 2025
Holiday Caravans Direct (HCD) wasn't just a platform rebuild — it was a complete technical evolution. When I stepped into the project, I...
Lessons from Lyons Davidson: When Framework Abstraction Goes Wrong
19 Aug 2025
One of the most valuable lessons I've learned in my career didn't come from a technical book or a mentor—it came from a misstep. While...
From Silverlight to Microservices: My Evolution as a Framework Developer
22 Jul 2025
My career in software development has followed a path that, looking back, feels deliberately paved by a focus on scalability, reuse, and...
Learning the Hard Way: Tackling Technical Debt and Legacy Systems Early On
21 Jul 2025
One of the defining features of my early career was being thrown headfirst into the murky waters of legacy systems and technical debt....
What Silverlight Taught Me (That Still Applies Today)
18 Jul 2025
Silverlight is long gone. Officially deprecated, removed from modern browsers, and largely forgotten by the wider tech community. But for...
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