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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Article

    Multi-Cloud Landing Zones: A Practical Decision Framework

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Article

    GitOps with ArgoCD: Moving from Imperative Deployments to Declarative Truth

    How a telecom client migrated 120 microservices from Jenkins-triggered deployments to a full GitOps model with ArgoCD.

  9. Article

    C4 Model in Practice: Communicating Architecture to Every Stakeholder

    Our field guide to C4 diagrams: which diagrams for which audience, Structurizr DSL templates, and ADR integration.

  10. Article

    Azure Landing Zones with Terraform: Subscription Vending at Scale

    How we automated Azure subscription provisioning for an energy group with policy-as-code, networking blueprints, and Terraform Cloud.

  11. Article

    Replacing BizTalk with API Platform: A Migration War Story

    The full narrative of migrating a decade-old BizTalk middleware to a modern Symfony/API Platform stack with zero-downtime deployment.

  12. Article

    TOGAF ADM in the Real World: What We Keep and What We Skip

    A practitioner's guide to applying TOGAF ADM in real engagements, the phases we use, the ones we adapt, and the ones we skip entirely.

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