Perhaps the most common question we get at Crosslake when performing technical due diligence on a company is, “Will this thing scale?” After all,…
Architecture
Architecture
Comparing 3 Major Modernization Strategies for Legacy Code
Having helped many clients on their journey to next generation technology, we often tackle the issue of modernization strategies for legacy code and platforms.…
Architecture
Why Innovative Businesses Are Migrating to Microservices
To keep pace with changing market demands and competitor landscapes, as well as innovations from industry leaders like Amazon, Google, and Netflix, businesses of…
Architecture
How To Build a Business Case for Legacy System Modernization
The continuous evolution of technology has made it challenging for newer applications to function correctly on legacy platforms, particularly when it comes to data…
Architecture
How PaaS Facilitates Data Migration: A Path to Implementation Success
Recently, a SaaS company within the Financial Technology industry acquired a competitor and launched an initiative to merge both companies’ critical customer-facing applications and…
Architecture
Maximizing Value Using PaaS
Many companies are looking to platform-as-a-service (PaaS) infrastructure, to enable faster, standardized, and more cost-efficient software development across their organization. Yet, some organizations get…
Architecture
PaaS Case Example: Membership Management Software Goes Cloud-Native
In an earlier post, we discussed how PaaS can help companies to enable faster, standardized, and more cost-efficient software development. In this post, we…
Architecture
Considerations for Addressing Legacy Code
The elephant in the room for many technology companies is their legacy software. Revenues are reasonable, but there is lots of potential for growth.…
Architecture
Failing Tests for Minor Bugs
Scenario Consider a case where there is a test case with several steps, and one of the steps fails because a bug is present…
Architecture
Documenting the Architecture
“There is no documentation in Agile!” Documentation is one of those necessary evils in software development, particularly for teams that use remote development centers…