Migration Playbooks

Complete operational guide for decomposing a monolith into microservices

Enterprise guide for migrating on-premises workloads to cloud infrastructure

Organization-wide DevOps transformation playbook

Guide for modernizing legacy frontend applications

Comprehensive guide for database upgrades and migrations

Transform legacy APIs to modern REST or GraphQL

Systematic approach to improving application security posture

Systematic approach to improving application performance

A phased program to fully vacate one or more owned datacenters by migrating workloads to public cloud and decommissioning physical infrastructure.

A phased program to establish a secure, multi-account AWS foundation with guardrails, networking, and identity before workloads arrive.

A phased program to deploy an enterprise-scale Azure landing zone with management groups, policy guardrails, hub-spoke networking, and subscription vending.

A phased program to build a Google Cloud foundation with a resource hierarchy, org policies, shared VPC networking, and automated project factory.

A phased program to migrate a VMware vSphere estate to public cloud, choosing between lift-and-shift hypervisor services and native replatforming.

A phased program to stand up a production-grade internal Kubernetes platform and onboard application teams onto golden paths.

A phased program to make a critical application survive a full regional outage through active-active or active-passive multi-region architecture.

A phased program to establish FinOps practice, gain cloud cost visibility, and drive sustained savings through accountability and automation.

A phased program to establish guardrails, policy-as-code, and compliance automation across a growing multi-account cloud estate.

A phased program to run on-premises and public cloud as one operating model with consistent identity, networking, governance, and delivery.

A phased program to design, implement, and continuously test disaster recovery for critical systems against defined RTO and RPO targets.

A phased program to migrate workloads from VMs and Docker Compose onto a managed container platform with standardized build and deploy.

A phased program to relocate workloads, data, and identity from AWS to Google Cloud while mapping services and minimizing downtime.

A phased program to migrate an on-premises estate to Microsoft Azure with assessment, landing zone, wave migration, and optimization.

A phased program to roll out a service mesh for mTLS, traffic management, and observability across a Kubernetes microservices estate.

A phased program to bring an ad-hoc cloud estate under infrastructure as code with modules, pipelines, and policy enforcement.

A phased program to plan and execute a large cloud migration as repeatable waves driven by a migration factory and a portfolio backlog.

A phased program to operate workloads across two or more public clouds with consistent governance, identity, and delivery while avoiding accidental lock-in.

A phased program to build an internal developer platform with golden paths and self-service that reduce cognitive load across product teams.

A phased program for breaking a large backend monolith into independently deployable services using the strangler-fig approach.

An enterprise program for migrating Java EE applications to Spring Boot with modern build, runtime, and deployment practices.

A portfolio program for moving .NET Framework applications to modern cross-platform .NET with containerized, cloud-ready deployment.

A coordinated program for migrating remaining Python 2 codebases to modern Python 3 with type hints and a hardened test suite.

A staged program for upgrading Ruby on Rails applications across major versions with dual-boot validation and gem modernization.

A program for upgrading PHP applications across major versions with automated rectoring, dependency updates, and staged rollout.

A fleet-wide program for upgrading Node.js services across major runtime versions with dependency and ESM modernization.

A program for incrementally replacing a legacy system by routing functionality to new services until the legacy is fully strangled.

An organization-wide program to adopt API-first design with contract governance, an API gateway, and a developer portal.

A program that uses domain-driven design and event storming to decompose a system into bounded-context services aligned to teams.

A measurable program to quantify, prioritize, and systematically pay down technical debt across a backend portfolio.

A repeatable program for keeping backend frameworks current through routine, low-risk major-version upgrades across a portfolio.

A program to restructure a tangled monolith into a modular monolith with enforced boundaries before any service extraction.

A program to introduce event-driven communication, a schema registry, and async workflows into a synchronous backend estate.

A risk-managed program to modernize COBOL mainframe applications toward Java services with parallel-run validation.

A fleet program to upgrade Java services from Java 8 to a modern LTS runtime with build, module, and dependency modernization.

A program to migrate suitable backend workloads to serverless functions with cost, cold-start, and observability controls.

A program to standardize backend services on Go with shared platform libraries, gRPC contracts, and golden-path tooling.

A fleet program to upgrade Spring Boot 2 services to Spring Boot 3, covering the Jakarta namespace move, Java baseline, and observability changes.

Run an enterprise program to migrate Oracle databases to PostgreSQL, covering schema conversion, PL/SQL rewrite, data movement, and cutover.

Migrate a legacy on-prem data warehouse to Snowflake, including workload analysis, ELT redesign, governance, and decommissioning.

Migrate analytics workloads to Google BigQuery with serverless design, partitioning strategy, governance, and cost controls.

Transform nightly batch data pipelines into real-time streaming pipelines using event-driven architecture and stream processing.

Roll out a data mesh operating model with domain-owned data products, a self-serve platform, and federated computational governance.

Establish an enterprise data governance program covering ownership, cataloging, lineage, quality, privacy, and policy enforcement.

Adopt dbt-style ELT to modernize transformation logic with version control, testing, documentation, and a medallion architecture.

Consolidate a data lake and warehouse into a unified lakehouse using open table formats, medallion architecture, and ACID transactions.

Establish a master data management program to create golden records, resolve duplicates, and govern shared reference data across systems.

Build change data capture pipelines to stream database changes into analytics and event systems with low latency and strong consistency.

Stand up a data quality program with profiling, automated tests, SLAs, anomaly detection, and incident workflows across pipelines.

Migrate a production database engine or version with no downtime using dual-write, CDC replication, shadow reads, and staged cutover.

Migrate SQL Server databases to PostgreSQL, converting T-SQL, schema, and data with validated cutover to cut licensing costs.

Migrate document data from MongoDB to PostgreSQL, modeling collections into relational and JSONB schemas with validated cutover.

Modernize fragile cron and script-based data pipelines into a governed orchestration platform with lineage, retries, and observability.

Adopt a schema registry and safe evolution practices for event and data schemas to prevent breaking changes across producers and consumers.

Build a feature store to unify ML feature engineering, ensure online and offline consistency, and enable feature reuse across teams.

Modernize legacy ETL tools into a cloud-native ELT architecture, pushing transformation into the warehouse with version control and tests.

Deploy a data catalog to make datasets discoverable with metadata, lineage, ownership, and a business glossary across the organization.

A phased program to move from manual or brittle pipelines to fast, secure, pipeline-as-code delivery with automated gates.

A program to make Git the single source of truth for infrastructure and deployments using declarative, continuously reconciled delivery.

A program to introduce Terraform-based infrastructure as code across teams with reusable modules, secure state, and policy guardrails.

A program to build an internal developer platform with golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and a service catalog that reduces cognitive load.

A phased program to adopt zero-trust security: verify every request, enforce least privilege, and remove implicit network trust.

A program to embed security into the software lifecycle with shift-left scanning, secure pipelines, and shared ownership between dev, sec, and ops.

A program to eliminate hardcoded secrets and adopt centralized, rotated, least-privilege secret storage with dynamic and short-lived credentials.

A program to instrument services with OpenTelemetry for unified traces, metrics, and logs, replacing fragmented vendor-specific monitoring.

A program to adopt Site Reliability Engineering with service level objectives, error budgets, and toil reduction to balance reliability and velocity.

A program to build structured incident response with clear roles, severity levels, blameless postmortems, and continuous learning.

A program to secure the build-to-deploy pipeline with SBOMs, artifact signing, provenance attestation, and SLSA-aligned controls.

A program to consolidate authentication onto a single identity provider with SSO, SCIM provisioning, and OIDC across applications.

A program to automate evidence collection and control monitoring for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, turning audits into continuous compliance.

A program to migrate VM-based and legacy applications into containers with hardened images, registries, and orchestrated deployment.

A program to bring financial accountability to cloud spend through cost visibility, allocation, optimization, and continuous governance.

A program to introduce a service mesh for secure service-to-service communication, traffic control, and observability across microservices.

A program to validate system resilience through controlled fault injection, hypothesis-driven experiments, and game days.

A program to engineer GDPR compliance into systems with data mapping, privacy-by-design controls, consent, and data-subject request automation.

A phased program to stand up an end-to-end MLOps platform covering feature stores, training pipelines, model registry, and automated deployment.

A program for rolling out a retrieval-augmented generation application from prototype to governed production with evals, guardrails, and observability.

A phased program to migrate ML model serving from bespoke endpoints to a standardized, autoscaling, observable serving platform.

A program to establish responsible-AI governance covering risk assessment, controls, model documentation, and ongoing oversight aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.

A phased program to build an AI red-teaming capability that adversarially tests LLM systems for jailbreaks, prompt injection, and harmful outputs.

A program to adopt a vector database for semantic search and RAG, covering embeddings, indexing, scaling, and operations.

A program to deliver low-latency, high-throughput real-time ML inference with autoscaling, feature freshness, and strict SLOs.

A program to adopt GraphQL alongside existing REST APIs, covering schema design, a federated gateway, performance, and governance.

A program to migrate internal service-to-service communication from REST/JSON to gRPC for lower latency and strong contracts.

A program to roll out a centralized API gateway for authentication, rate limiting, routing, and observability across services.

A program to adopt event-driven architecture with a streaming backbone, schema governance, and resilient async patterns.

A program to migrate from a centralized enterprise service bus to decentralized, event-driven and API-led integration.

A program to establish API-first practices across teams using OpenAPI contracts, mock-driven development, and contract testing.

A program to build a rigorous LLM evaluation capability with offline evals, online metrics, and regression gating in CI.

A program to roll out a feature store that unifies feature engineering for training and serving with consistency and reuse.

A program to build a reliable webhook delivery platform with signing, retries, idempotency, and subscriber management.

A program to build a governed AI agent platform with tool integration via MCP, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.

A program to standardize asynchronous messaging contracts with AsyncAPI, schema governance, and contract testing across teams.

A program to establish disciplined REST API versioning, backward compatibility, and graceful deprecation across a portfolio.

A phased program for migrating legacy AngularJS (1.x) applications to a modern, component-based framework while keeping the product shippable throughout.

A program for decomposing a frontend monolith into independently deployable micro-frontends owned by autonomous teams.

A program for migrating a client-rendered single-page app to server-side rendering for better performance, SEO, and core web vitals.

A program for building and rolling out a shared design system across multiple product teams to enforce consistency and speed up delivery.

A program for consolidating separate native iOS and Android apps onto a single cross-platform codebase to cut duplication and speed releases.

A program for migrating an existing native iOS or Android app to React Native or Flutter incrementally, embedding the new stack inside the native shell.

A program for migrating from SAP ECC to S/4HANA, covering readiness, custom code remediation, and a phased conversion or greenfield approach.

A program for migrating legacy Oracle Forms and Reports applications to a modern web stack with a service API over the existing database.

A program for bringing a product portfolio into WCAG 2.2 AA conformance through audit, remediation, and embedded accessibility governance.

A program for migrating a legacy desktop application to a browser-based web app while preserving offline capability and workflow productivity.

A program for systematically improving frontend performance and core web vitals across a product through budgets, optimization, and continuous monitoring.

A program for migrating a legacy Objective-C iOS app to Swift incrementally using interoperability, file by file, while keeping the app shippable.

A program for migrating a legacy Java Android app to Kotlin incrementally, leveraging interop and moving toward Jetpack Compose.

A program for breaking a large single-page-app monolith into modular, independently maintainable boundaries without a full rewrite.

A program for migrating a legacy ASP.NET WebForms application to ASP.NET Core, replacing the page-lifecycle model with modern web patterns.

A program for migrating a jQuery-driven legacy web frontend to a component-based single-page application incrementally.

A program for upgrading an existing web app into an installable, offline-capable progressive web app with reliable performance.

A program for migrating a legacy Xamarin.Forms mobile app to .NET MAUI, the supported cross-platform successor, before Xamarin end of support.