Tag: modernization
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AI speeds up modernization projects by speeding up up-front analysis time
Using AI code stuff to remove bottlenecks to getting modernization projects going. UK government pilots cut legacy-system discovery from weeks to hours – five weeks to under a day for 33 Clojure apps, 15 days of manual regression testing to 30 minutes – and the real gain is that modernization work nobody could justify starting…
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Introducing SKE Lift: Discover the Platform Hidden in Your Existing Infrastructure
Find your accidental platforms. You always have a platform, and if you don’t have it on purpose, you have a bunch of garbage platforms. 🔗 Introducing SKE Lift: Discover the Platform Hidden in Your Existing Infrastructure
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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“PE 2.0”
We are seeing a distinct movement where infrastructure is being reclaimed as a first-class platform concern. In the early days, platform engineering focused heavily on developer experience, often treating the underlying infrastructure as a utility that was managed separately. That is no longer sufficient. To succeed in the AI era, platform teams must have deep…
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Why Most App Modernization Efforts Fail, and How a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Can Stop the Billion-Dollar Bleed
Spending on legacy application modernization is forecast to grow from $22.67 billion in 2025 to $51.45 billion in 2031, according to an October 2025 MarketsandMarkets report. Argues a capabilities-driven strategy is what separates the efforts that work from the ones that bleed money. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Why Most App Modernization Efforts Fail, and How…
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The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work
Of late, the newsletter has turned into me linking to longer posts on my blog. There’s the usual links and wastebook as well. This makes it more of a digest than a stand-alone item. As you can tell by the volume of blog posts below, I like blogging though and I’m glad I’m doing I…
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Accelerating Enterprise Application Upgrades Through Legacy Dependency Migration: Spring Application Advisor 1.4 – Upgrading software is sort of a boring topic. But, when we talk about this with customers, they get more excited than talking about AI. I shit you not. Just upgrading your ancient Java versions (as in this product release) is a huge…
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Rebuilding the Social Security Administration’s Codebase – “Still, it’s interesting to think about how this should be done. I wonder if they could run the new system in a sandbox for a year, feeding it all the same inputs, and see whether it generates the same outputs.” // This feels like the kind of advantage…
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– Modernizing the Mainframe in Place: Transforming Core Technologies – Improve the mainframe app. // Likely some good patterns for talking/thinking about modernizing any type existing apps “in place.”
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2024 Predictions – “Application modernization has been a nagging problem for decades but has recently emerged as a critical concern for enterprises, with around 62% of organizations worldwide considering it a high or top priority today, and over 70% expecting it to be a high or top priority in the next…
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Deploying the Swift Method to Modernize a Singapore Government Legacy System – Good description of what it feels like to be stuck in the legacy trap: “The [Singapore] government agency in this case study faced a similar issue with a legacy system that supported critical business processes, integrated with other business-critical applications, and was developed…
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Escape the Legacy Trap: 5 Keys to Successful Application Modernization – Modernize those apps!
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Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery – For when you’re doing more than just lift and shift. Also, Marc and I wrote up using DDD for app modernization The Legacy Trap.
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Another bank bites the dust. Three recommendations to wring opportunity out of this so-called crisis. – “Continue investment in critical modernization initiatives. Digitize your commercial banking offerings Create actual offerings for small and medium enterprise clients, inclusive of start-ups and scale-ups.”
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From software to meatware
Last week I talked with my co-worker Fouad Hamdi about a mainframe modernization project he worked on last year. I mean, the team he was on of course, not him single handedly. He wrote a great over of the process and I was eager to ask him a few questions. The video included in this…
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Link: Lessons from Elad Gil and High Growth Handbook
It’d be useful at some point to compare the “how to be a startup” advice to “how to modernize and suite of enterprise applications.” For example, an enterprise often knows its product/market fit (e.g., selling kidnapping insurance to executives). However, it may not know the best product/technology approach (it needs a mobile app that tracks…
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Link: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code. Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
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Fixing government procurement one process at a time
Part of the problem, according to the General Services Administration’s Bill Zielinski, is that many agencies still try to scope out modernization projects with highly specific technical requirements. “We define not only the business outcome that we’re trying to achieve,” Zielinski said at the FCW-hosted IT modernization event, “but we have that tendency to say,…