Platform engineering
Recovering the Architecture of a Mature System
Representative engineering work
Understanding dependencies, constraints, and trust boundaries before defining a modernization path.
Context
A representative architecture-assessment scenario for a mature production system whose behavior, integrations, and operational constraints had evolved over time.
Challenge
The system contained valuable business behavior alongside multiple integration patterns, implicit dependencies, duplicated logic, and trust boundaries that were not documented in one place.
Engineering Approach
Recover the current state before prescribing the future state: trace dependencies, identify why key decisions exist, map operational constraints, and distinguish working behavior from change-blocking debt.
Architecture / Technical Decisions
Document application, API, identity, data, platform, and infrastructure boundaries together. Define modernization seams where change can be isolated, validated, and reversed instead of treating the system as a blank slate.
Continue through the system
View all workReliability engineering
Diagnosing a Cross-Layer Production Problem
Investigating intermittent failures across application, data, platform, network, storage, and infrastructure boundaries.
Software Modernization
Modernizing Legacy .NET Without a Big-Bang Rewrite
Moving .NET Framework applications toward modern .NET while preserving working business behavior and production continuity.