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A Pipeline Approach to Language Migrations
Automated language migrations can be made reliable and maintainable by structuring them as pipelines with clear, testable stages. This avoids the pitfalls of big-bang rewrites while providing transparency and modularity. The pipeline approach ensures idiomatic code, preserves legacy business logic, and supports large-scale transformations from outdated systems.
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Zero-Downtime Critical Cloud Infrastructure Upgrades at Scale
Engineers can avoid common pitfalls in large-scale infrastructure upgrades by studying others' experiences. The article provides lessons learned from big firms like eBay and Snowflake, offering solutions for legacy systems, performance validation, and rollback planning. It emphasizes systematic preparation and clear communication to handle challenges and ensure zero-downtime upgrades at scale.
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From Legacy to Value: Building Digital Banking Products across Central and Eastern Europe
This article shares practical experiences and concrete examples from multi-site teams that built a single solution and delivered value to customers across various European markets. It provides real-life stories and lessons learned from developing two banking products, Lending and Foreign Exchange (FX), and their evolving architecture over time.
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Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI
In this article, we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and the impact they have on a developer’s workflow. We introduce a practical approach to staying in control while working with these tools by adopting key best practices from the discipline of software architecture, including defining an implementation plan, splitting tasks, and so on.
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We Took Developers out of the Portal: How APIOps and IaC Reshaped Our API Strategy
Dynamic API strategist with expertise in transforming legacy management into efficient APIOps frameworks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Proven track record in automating API lifecycles, enhancing security, and fostering developer productivity through CI/CD integration. Adept at driving operational excellence and consistency across environments, enabling rapid deployment and innovation.
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AI Interventions to Reduce Cycle Time in Legacy Modernization
In this article, we share our experiences and insights on how large language models (LLMs) helped us uncover and enhance the conceptual constructs behind software. We discuss how these approaches address the inherent complexity of software engineering and improve the likelihood of success in large, complex software modernization projects.
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Legacy Modernization: Architecting Real-Time Systems around a Mainframe
At its heart, our transformation journey is about breaking dependencies at multiple levels. Many enterprises face similar challenges with legacy systems: tightly coupled architectures that are difficult to scale, change, or maintain. For us at National Grid, the solution came through four complementary paradigms that worked together to enable different forms of decoupling.
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Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture
Rashmi Venugopal explores the inevitability of legacy systems in successful companies and the importance of transforming legacy systems to accelerate innovation. Rashmi discusses various strategies to tackle such technical renovation initiatives, like evolutionary architecture, deprecation-driven development, and intentional organization design.
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Elevate Developer Experience with Generative AI Capabilities on AWS
This is a summary of a talk I gave at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024. I discussed the transformative potential of generative AI in enhancing developer experiences, particularly through AWS. I’ll introduce key tools like Amazon Bedrock, Code Review Assistant, Agentic Code Generation, and Code Summarization in this article.
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Transforming Legacy Healthcare Systems: a Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture
Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project, but an ongoing journey.
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How to Use Multiple GitHub Accounts
Git is a popular tool for version control in software development. It is not uncommon to use multiple Git accounts. Correctly configuring and switching Git accounts is challenging. In this article, we show what Git provides for account configuration, its limitations, and the solution to switch accounts automatically based on a project parent directory location.
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Lessons Learned from Enterprise Usage of GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is an effective CI tool. However, integrating it into enterprise organizations can be challenging. This article looks at best practices for GitHub Actions in the enterprise.