Category: Legacy Modernization

Stop waiting for documentation that will never arrive. Four discovery techniques that read the running system instead of the missing docs, and how to plan around the parts you will never fully understand.

The clean rewrite is the most seductive and most dangerous plan in legacy software modernization. Why it fails, the three alternatives that work, and the rare case where a rewrite is genuinely right.

Your legacy system processes thousands of transactions a day. It works – mostly. But every new feature takes months, every deployment is a coin flip, and your best engineers spend more time patching than building. You know it needs to change. The question is: how do you modernise without pulling the rug out from under…

Your Java monolith processes 2,000 requests per second. Business says: modernize it. Also business says: zero downtime. The Strangler Fig pattern is how you do both – and we have the scars to prove it. The Problem: A Monolith You Can’t Turn Off We’ve seen this pattern dozens of times. A Java monolith, built years…

Your legacy system is bleeding money. The question isn’t whether to act – it’s whether you rewrite from scratch or refactor what you have. Most teams frame this as binary. It’s not. It’s a spectrum, and picking the wrong point on that spectrum costs you months, budget, and sometimes the project itself. We’ve delivered both…