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Insights

What we have learned on client work, written down: articles, whitepapers and points of view on architecture, cloud, integration, platforms, FinOps and AI.

  1. Article

    RAG Architecture Patterns for the Enterprise: Lessons from Three Production Deployments

    After deploying retrieval-augmented generation systems at three enterprise clients, we share the architectural patterns that worked and the anti-patterns that didn't.

  2. Article

    FinOps at Scale: Building a Cost-Aware Engineering Culture

    How one energy client embedded FinOps into sprint ceremonies, architecture reviews, and CI/CD pipelines, achieving 40% cloud cost reduction without sacrificing velocity.

  3. Whitepaper

    Enterprise RAG Architecture Playbook: From POC to Production

    A practitioner's guide to designing, deploying, and governing retrieval-augmented generation systems at enterprise scale.

  4. Point of view

    Why Enterprise AI Needs an Architecture, Not Just a Model

    LLM adoption without a platform strategy creates shadow AI, duplicated costs, and ungoverned data flows. What an enterprise AI architecture actually requires.

  5. Article

    Using MEGA HOPEX for Architecture Governance at a European Bank

    How we configured MEGA HOPEX to serve as the single source of truth for a 200+ application portfolio at a European bank.

  6. Article

    Internal Developer Platforms: Beyond the Golden Path

    How we build IDPs with Backstage, Terraform modules, and policy-as-code, and the org design that makes it stick.

  7. Article

    Multi-Cloud Landing Zones: A Practical Decision Framework

    A decision matrix distilled from seven landing zone engagements across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

  8. Article

    Event-Driven Integration with Symfony Messenger and Redis Streams

    How we replaced synchronous SAP RFC calls with an async event-driven pipeline using Symfony Messenger and Redis Streams.

  9. Whitepaper

    The FinOps Operating Model Blueprint for Multi-Cloud Enterprises

    A complete framework for implementing FinOps across AWS and Azure environments, from team design to CI/CD integration.

  10. Point of view

    Cloud Cost Culture Is a People Problem, Not a Tooling Problem

    Most organisations have cost dashboards. Few have cost accountability. The gap is organisational, and closing it requires a different intervention than buying more FinOps tooling.

  11. Article

    Headless CMS at Scale: Governing 50+ Websites Without Losing Your Mind

    Lessons from operating a headless CMS architecture for a global manufacturing brand with 50+ web properties.

  12. Point of view

    The Platform Engineering Trap: When IDPs Create More Toil Than They Eliminate

    Internal developer platforms that aren't treated as products become expensive maintenance burdens. The four anti-patterns we see repeatedly, and how to avoid them.

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