Why CI/CD matters long before your team gets big
Continuous integration and delivery reduce the uncertainty between a code change and a working feature. Here is what a useful pipeline should prove for a small business or growing product team.
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How to make software deployments predictable and recoverable
A release is more than a successful pipeline. Learn how deployment strategies, database compatibility, health checks and recovery plans work together.
A practical roadmap for migrating legacy applications
Plan a staged migration around business workflows, data ownership and rehearsed cutovers. A guide for teams modernising .NET and SQL Server systems without betting everything on a rewrite.
When custom ERP costs less than the licence
Licensed ERP looks cheaper until the customisation budget is counted. A method for comparing the two honestly, including the cost of upgrades and the cost of changing how your business works.
Migrating WebForms to .NET 10 without downtime
The strangler pattern applied to a real estate: what to move first, and what to leave alone.
Evaluating document extraction before you deploy it
Building the labelled sample that tells you whether the model is good enough for production.
Reconciling a data migration line by line
How we prove that nothing was lost between the old system and the new one.
Designing permissions before you design screens
Role modelling is the cheapest work in an ERP project and the most expensive to retrofit.