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When Should You Build a Proof of Concept?

A decision framework for proofs of concept — when a PoC earns its cost, how to scope one so it answers a single question, and the failure modes that turn PoCs into accidental production systems.

  • Product
  • Discovery
  • Delivery

9 min read

How to Modernize a Legacy Java Application

A sequencing guide for modernising a long-lived Java system incrementally — assessment, characterisation tests, strangler-fig extraction and runtime upgrades — without a big-bang rewrite.

  • Java
  • Modernisation
  • Architecture

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