If you don’t think a company’s tech matters, think again. This is the single biggest risk and hidden cost when it comes to making your day one target and realizing the cost savings you were banking on with the acquisition.
Legacy Systems in the Airlines – Going from SNAFU to FUBAR in 2 Days
“You cannot neglect your infrastructure. Just like the world around you changes, so must it to keep up with your growing business. You ignore this at your peril.” I’m going to take a break from the Saxy Inc. series to provide my $0.02USD on the debacle of the previous week: the meltdown of Southwest Airlines. Especially since I was one …
Permanent Strangulation
When discussing how to transition to new systems or environments, one of my favorite approaches is the strangler pattern because it allows for a low risk approach to transition to the new environment in a piecemeal fashion. There is a hidden risk with this approach, and it is the price tag is increased tech debt adding complexity and maintenance costs. …
Looking for help on Facebook
I’m going to share part of a conversation I had while attending KubeCon last fall. We sapped stories on our experiences with esoteric hardware, but there were two that came to mind. The first looked at a regional bank that happened to have a VAX based system running their daily transactions. There was an issue that required rebooting the system …
Legacy Migration Strategies
What do you think of when you hear about a legacy system? A machine in a corner with a broom handle holding the power switch on because the switch slips to off when nobody’s looking, and they don’t want to be the person to remove it. Perhaps it is a user account management system that sits on a Sun Ultra …
Legacy Systems
I stumbled upon an article in the IEEE Spectrum this month that highlights the massive elephant that exists in the room of most organizations that have been around for a while. In fact, Spectrum dedicated their September 2020 print issue to this concern. And concern it is. From a business perspective, they were sold a complete turnkey system that they …