Field notes.
Why modernization goes wrong, and what to do about it. Written from projects we were on.
Modernization.
The Five Failure Modes of Legacy Modernization
A systems-engineering failure, not a software one.
Five ways these projects fail, from an insurer, a utility, a health insurer and a cloud vendor. None of them is about whether the team can code.
You Don’t Have Netflix’s Problem
Great engineers mitigate risk. They don’t chase it.
A team of senior engineers built a microservices platform to watch a trickle of meter pings, and paid four thousand dollars a day for it.