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Microservices Best Practices

Microservices best practices from teams who've seen the failure modes: boundaries, communication, data, operability, and how to migrate without building a distributed monolith.
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Legacy System Modernization: 
A Playbook

How to modernize legacy systems without freezing the business. Covers the 6 Rs, the strangler fig pattern, data migration and operational handover, from teams who do it embedded.
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What is a Center of Excellence

What a Center of Excellence is, the models that work, and how to build an engineering CoE that owns architecture, platform and delivery without becoming a bottleneck.
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The Real Cost of Vendor Lock-in

Vendor lock-in is a financial problem as much as a technical one. How to calculate the true 5-year total cost of dependency, and how to design your way out of it.
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Architecture Decision Records: 
A Practical Guide

What Architecture Decision Records are, why they matter, and how to write good ones. Includes a copy-ready ADR template and the anti-patterns to avoid.
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What Is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

What retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is, how it works, when to use it instead of fine-tuning, and the best practices that keep a RAG system accurate in production.
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What Is a Vector Database?

What a vector database is, how vector search and embeddings work, and why RAG and AI applications rely on one. Explained plainly, without the jargon.
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AI in Healthcare

How AI is used in healthcare, the engineering and compliance challenges that separate demos from production, and what it takes to ship clinical-grade AI safely.
We embed with your teams to design, test and codify a delivery model (ways of working, flow of work, release governance, QA) that your organisation can run independently at scale.
Predictable releases across pods and products.
Clear ownership from idea to production.
Built-in quality standards instead of the last-minute QA.
A delivery model your teams understand, trust, and can improve.