Cloud and Application Modernization
Technical articles and architecture insights on cloud migration, modernization strategy, legacy transformation and enterprise IT.
Here is a story I keep seeing, in one shape or another. A team decides to build a micro-frontend platform. They start the smart way: a composition-first, builder approach. A shell app loads independent remotes at runtime, each team ships …
Lift-and-shift migrations are never glamorous. But they’re often the right first step — get out of the datacenter, then modernize in the cloud where iteration is cheap. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) handles the replication …
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ sounds straightforward — “it’s just managed RabbitMQ.” Until you hit the first incompatibility. And the second. And the third. I’ve run enough of these migrations to know that the official docs …
Not every data platform runs on a single cloud. In practice, I keep seeing organizations with CI/CD in Azure DevOps, compute on GCP, and production workloads scattered across providers. The architecture needs to work with this reality, not …
BigQuery migrations are happening at scale. Post-2023 pricing changes led to 25–265% cost increases for many customers, GCP incentive packages are expiring, and enterprises are re-evaluating their data platform strategy. I’ve been …
Picture a sprawling enterprise catalog system, born in an era when monolithic applications ruled. It processes thousands of product queries daily across multiple regions. It has served its purpose for years — but it’s now showing its …
Everyone is building “agents” now. But ask five engineers what an agent actually is and you’ll get six answers. I’ve spent the last year working on agentic systems — from industrial diagnostic agents to workflow …
The hardest part of building software is not writing code. It’s understanding what to build. I’ve facilitated dozens of workshops with enterprise teams — some building new products, some untangling decades of legacy processes. …
Originally published on the AWS Builder Center. Republished here with light formatting adjustments. TL;DR — Transformation isn’t new; AI just makes it faster. The same five-phase framework (Assessment → Target roadmap → Preparation → …
You cannot improve what you do not measure. This principle applies to code quality, system performance, and — critically — cloud modernization programs. Yet most organizations run multi-year, multi-million-euro transformation programs with …