Systems Integrators vs. Software Consultants

Organizations have choices in the outside assistance they utilize for platform implementations and software builds.  This article discusses some differences between two major categories: Software Consultants and Software Integrators. Let’s begin with a common story… a core piece of software your company depends on needs to be replaced. You’ve are looking at options: attending sales pitches, … Continued

The Disconnect: Hybrid Clouds and Dreams Unrealized

One of my favorite things about Axian, is the birds eye view that we’ll often get on technology and its adoption. We’re in tens of worksites every year, and often get to see technology initiatives of all sorts (platforms, tooling, governance, etc…). We also get to lend a hand when rollouts go awry, or activities … Continued

Axian 30th Anniversary Party

Axian’s 30th Anniversary Party, and a retirement celebration for a long time Axianite, Dwain Fagerberg! Serving this region for over 3 decades, leading an evolving technology landscape and making a lot of friends along the way.

Data Handcuffs: The Aftermath of Success

When Success = Compliance For many of our customers success has come with accolades, trophies, …and a fresh round of compliance/governance to adhere to! For teams who haven’t started out with data compliance in mind (which is most), this often means that there are volumes of PII, PHI, or trade secrets that have accrued in … Continued

Moving a mountain (of data)

I recently had the chance to work with a client (let’s call them ACME Corp.)  that is emerging out of the startup phase. Like many startups, this client has created a product, found a viable market, and had challenges scaling what they’d built. The product was built using Google’s Firebase Real-Time Database (RTDB) for storage. … Continued

Serverless Multi-Region Pure-Lambda Microservices on AWS

Recently we were presented with a greenfield project from a client with an interesting blend of performance requirements and desired architecture pattern. Our client wanted a highly available, autoscaling microservice with excellent performance across North America, delivered using serverless technologies in the AWS cloud. The solution that we developed for this project is something we … Continued

Orchestrating AWS Serverless to Replace Backoffice Workflows with Nautilus and Axian

In 2020, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure surpassed spending on on-premises data centers for the first time. This watershed milestone highlights the significant shift to the cloud for organizations across the globe. For some companies, the migration to the cloud entailed like-for-like replication of on-premises infrastructure into a cloud environment. While this is a good … Continued

Stencil + Storybook

TL;DR: With some effort, Stencil and Storybook can work together. Sample repository below. The Setup I have been using StencilJS for a couple of years now. While not perfect, it has a lot of features I really enjoy for a Web Component library (TypeScript, JSX, compiled). It’s a great framework for building a Web Component … Continued