When Legacy Systems Become a Maze: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities

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TL;DR Legacy systems are often difficult to maintain due to technical debt, outdated tools, and minimal resourcing, but a full rewrite is rarely feasible. Instead, teams can modernize incrementally by optimizing processes, leveraging the cloud, automating workflows, and reducing reliance on institutional knowledge. Small, strategic improvements aligned with the Well-Architected (WAR) pillars can enhance efficiency, … Continued

Overcoming the Challenges of Cloud Development Environments

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Cloud computing has revolutionized how we develop and deploy software. More and more software is being developed or re-engineered for the cloud to capture the flexibility and scalability provided.  However, the platform flexibility comes with its own set of unique challenges.   Let’s dive into some of the common hurdles developers face in cloud environments … Continued

Reducing Processing Time by Orders of Magnitude

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Efficient transaction processing is crucial for organizations managing high transaction volumes. When processing falters, it impacts operational timelines and customer loyalty. A client recently faced a critical version of the above. A slow, data-driven rules engine was creating a backlog of bill audits, with processing times stretching to multiple seconds per bill. Work was stacking … Continued

Celebrating AWS Lambda Service Delivery Excellence – Thanks Team!

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Team Axian, I’m thrilled to share that Axian has been recognized for AWS Lambda Service Delivery Excellence, a prestigious designation within the AWS Partner Network (APN). This honor reflects our commitment to delivering innovative, scalable, and efficient serverless solutions for our customers. Achieving this milestone is no small feat, as it required us to meet … Continued

Where the LLM Rubber Meets the Road

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Practical Questions to Ask Before Starting a Generative AI Project It’s been over a year and half since OpenAI made their LLM (Large Language Model) generally available to the public, introducing the world to an exciting new technology that was leaps and bounds above anything anyone had seen in the space so far. A tidal … Continued

Event Modeling

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In the hyper-speed realm of software development, the balance between detailed planning and flexible execution is a delicate art. Too often, teams are confronted with heavy weight processes, which stifles agility and introduces delays, while over-burdened teams move forward with minimal planning, which often leads to ambiguity and misaligned expectations and introduces delays. This is … Continued

Measuring Remote Software Teams

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Managing software teams can be challenging and with more people working in a distributed capacity, managers have additional challenges. With these new and existing challenges, the ability to measure your team’s progress has grown in importance. The COVID pandemic changed how software teams work. Collaborating in the office used to be the norm. Having the … Continued

AWS Advanced Partner Achieved – Go Team

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Dear Team, I am thrilled to share some fantastic news —Axian has officially achieved the AWS Advanced Partner tier! This is another fantastic milestone for our company, and it would not have been possible without the hard work, professionalism, and excellence brought by Axianites each and every day. Achieving this tier is no small feat. … Continued

Leveraging Gen AI Integrations – Faster Than You Think!

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Generative AI is streamlining workflows, speeding time to market, maximizing efficiencies, and presenting capabilities that would historically be very expensive (if not impossible) to create via other means.   Newer versions have added accelerated paths to quickly prototyping/experimenting with enhancements to service and product lines. Below are several reasons you can get your first Gen AI … Continued

Managing Technical Debt in Software Projects

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In the dynamic world of software development, projects, like well-oiled machines, require regular cleaning, maintenance, and, most importantly, tune-ups. Just as restaurants meticulously schedule kitchen maintenance and production lines periodically shut down for optimization, software projects demand attention to keep them running smoothly. Defining Technical Debt At the core of effective software project management lies … Continued