Insights
Insights
What we have learned on client work, written down: articles, whitepapers and points of view on architecture, cloud, integration, platforms, FinOps and AI.
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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.
- 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.
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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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Multi-Cloud Is a Risk Strategy, Not a Vendor Strategy
Enterprises adopt multi-cloud to avoid lock-in, but achieve it accidentally. Our framework for making multi-cloud decisions intentionally, with clear trade-off accounting.
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The End of the ESB: What Comes After Your Middleware Decommission
Decommissioning BizTalk or MuleSoft isn't a project, it's a capability transition. The organisations that succeed have invested in event-driven architecture before cutting the old system over.
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Digital Transformation Starts with Honest Readiness, Not Ambition
Most transformation programmes are designed around ambition. They fail because of unaddressed readiness gaps. The organisations that succeed invest in diagnosis before commitment.
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