The system that runs your business was built by people who've moved on, in a framework that's aging out, and everyone's a little afraid to touch it. The vendor pitch is a two-year, big-bang rewrite. You know how those end. So the modernization keeps getting deferred, and the risk keeps compounding.

I modernize in slices that ship. I've decomposed monolithic ASP.NET Core services into domain-aligned microservices with resilient messaging and independent deployments — evolving the system while it stays in production, not replacing it in one terrifying cutover. WebForms to modern .NET. On-prem to AKS. Legacy line-of-business apps unified into a single modern platform (I did exactly that at CDW, merging two legacy WebForms apps into one). Each slice delivers value and de-risks the next.

Domain-aligned decomposition, resilient async messaging on Service Bus, independent deployments so one team's release doesn't hold another's hostage. And a clear-eyed read on what not to modernize — because some of that old code is boring and load-bearing and should be left exactly where it is.