Research Insights
Data-driven insights on legacy modernization, cloud migration, and technology transformation projects.
A CTO's Guide to Legacy System Risk Assessment
A practical legacy system risk assessment framework to quantify technical debt, model real costs, and make defensible modernization decisions.
Dec 31, 2025
Monolith to Microservices: A Data-Driven, Step-by-Step Decomposition Guide
Planning ranges, failure modes, and migration patterns for monolith-to-microservices projects. Practical guide for CTOs with a decision framework.
Dec 30, 2025
A Practical Guide to the Technical Debt Calculation Formula
Discover how to use a technical debt calculation formula to translate code issues into clear financial terms, justify budgets, and evaluate vendors.
Dec 27, 2025
Mainframe to Cloud Migration Challenges: Pre-Cutover Tests
Test mainframe to cloud migration readiness and cost drivers: reconcile financial data, prove peak and batch performance, and rehearse rollback.
Dec 26, 2025
IT Staff Augmentation Companies: Models, Fees & Fit
Compare 12 IT staff augmentation agencies and platforms by model, screening, employment duties, and fees. Shortlist with one role brief.
Dec 16, 2025
What Is Vendor Due Diligence? A Risk-Tiered Survival Guide
What is vendor due diligence? Learn to assess third-party vendor risks, from cybersecurity to financial stability, before they become a business liability.
Dec 12, 2025
Microservices Migration Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Microservices migration case study roundup: Netflix, Amazon, Uber, Samsung, Prime Video and more, with the patterns, outcomes and lessons for your migration.
Dec 11, 2025
Applying Domain-Driven Design to Legacy Systems: A Pragmatic Guide
Discover how to modernize a domain-driven design legacy system safely, using DDD patterns and the Strangler Fig approach to refactor monoliths.
Dec 10, 2025
Software Vendor Due Diligence Checklist: Red Flags & Scoring
Vendor due diligence checklist for software modernization: financial, security, contract and reference red flags, plus a weighted risk scoring framework.
Dec 7, 2025
Technical Due Diligence Checklist: 10 Steps To Prevent Modernization Failures
Discover a concise technical due diligence checklist to spot modernization risks early and prevent costly failures.
Dec 6, 2025
Modernization Is Business Reinvention, Not Just Code Swaps
A definitive guide to the modernization of technology. Learn key strategies, cost drivers, and metrics to transform legacy systems into AI-native architectures.
Dec 5, 2025
Hybrid Application Development: Ten Architecture Principles
A practical guide to hybrid application development: ten architecture principles, when to avoid a hybrid approach, and what it means for cost and team skills.
Dec 4, 2025