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Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel

The big bang rewrite is the most confident decision an engineering team can make and one of the worst. The pitch is always reasonable. The current s…

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There is a lot of literature about how to refactor code and what techniques to apply, but sometimes we forget one important aspect: the human factor…

Every mainframe migration begins with someone searching for mainframe migration tools, and every vendor demonstration that follows looks remarkably…

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Mainframe modernisation is rarely a single decision. It is a choice between several distinct strategies, each with a very different cost, timeline,…

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COBOL still underpins a vast amount of the software running in UK banks, insurers, public sector bodies, and large retailers. Much of it processes m…

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James Coombs is a design engineer who migrated a large frontend from Material UI to a custom design system (Radix, Tailwind). Four CSS systems had t…

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James Coombs is a design engineer who replaced a migration guide with 49 JSON data files and a handoff playbook. Engineers on four other teams migra…

Introduction Modernizing Go codebases has long been a manual, error-prone process, particularly as the language and its standard library evolve rapi…

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Introduction: The Prevalence of Entity-Based Patterns Walk into any mid-sized software project today, and you’ll find the same architectural bluepri…