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Technical Speaking: Common Messaging Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Technical Speaking: Common Messaging Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

After delivering dozens of technical talks — from 50-person meetups to 2000-seat conference keynotes — I have made every messaging mistake in the book. Some were recoverable. Some resulted in blog posts quoting me wildly out of context. One …

Modernizing PowerBuilder Applications: Strategies for the Cloud Era
Modernizing PowerBuilder Applications: Strategies for the Cloud Era

PowerBuilder applications are the cockroaches of enterprise software. I do not mean that disparagingly — they survive everything. Economic downturns, technology shifts, organizational restructuring, multiple failed “rip and …

Monitoring Hybrid VPN Connectivity Between Azure and AWS
Monitoring Hybrid VPN Connectivity Between Azure and AWS

Hybrid cloud architectures connecting Azure and AWS through site-to-site VPN tunnels are increasingly common. What is far less common is proper monitoring of those tunnels. Most teams configure the VPN, verify it works once, and then …

How to build an AI-powered diagnostic agent for industrial equipment
How to build an AI-powered diagnostic agent for industrial equipment

When a machine shows symptoms, technicians need to figure out the root cause and the best way to fix it. Today, this knowledge lives in the heads of experienced engineers and is scattered across thousands of unstructured service reports of …

Why RTO explodes when architecture complexity grows
Why RTO explodes when architecture complexity grows

For years, I have been working on software and architecture modernization. Mostly existing systems. Sometimes brand new products. This week made one thing painfully clear: RTO is not an operational problem. It is an architectural one.

Migrating Firebase Authentication to Amazon Cognito with Amplify
Migrating Firebase Authentication to Amazon Cognito with Amplify

Authentication migration is one of the highest-risk tasks in any platform transition. Users cannot be told “please re-register.” Passwords cannot be extracted from Firebase. And federated identity providers add another layer of …

Modernization Is Not Refactoring — And GenAI Doesn't Change That (Yet)
Modernization Is Not Refactoring — And GenAI Doesn't Change That (Yet)

Watch the 30-second summary Your browser does not support the video tag. Auto-generated summary — read the full article below for details. When organizations face technical debt and aging systems, a common reflex is to assume that …

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