If money were no object, the most idyllic place I could imagine would be a mid-century modern Frank Lloyd Wright style house, designed to fit perfectly into a cliff overlooking the vastness of the ocean, treating residents and guests to breathtaking views. If I were to acquire such an imaginary bespoke architectural wonder from the […]

Part 4 in the Uncovering Technical Debt Series from Intellyx, for vFunction. [Check out part 1 | 2 | 3 here.] We’ve dug deep into our technology stacks, uncovering all of the legacy artifacts and monoliths that we could find from past incarnations of our organization.  We’ve cataloged them, rebuilt them to modern coding standards, […]

Part 2 in the Uncovering Technical Debt series: An Intellyx BrainBlog for vFunction. Check out part one here. Decompose, analyze, break into services, refactor. Whatever methods and tools you use to bring legacy code and architecture up to modern standards, there’s a science to enterprise application modernization.  But what if that science is archaeology? If […]

We’re riveted by risk. Captivated by collapses and crashes. Humans are hardwired to be fascinated with failure. This natural survival imperative can even influence our approach to the high-stakes game of application modernization, where learning or ignoring lessons from the project failures of others can determine an organization’s survival or failure. What are some of […]

Mexico City, 1968 Olympics. At a time when all the world’s high jumpers were doing a straddle technique, one Dick Fosbury executed a seemingly impossible move, winning gold by keeping his center of gravity lower and rolling over the bar backwards. His unique approach flipped the script on the sport, and the high jump has […]