Preparing repositories for an external code review
Access, redaction, and the documents that save the first day of a review from becoming an archaeology expedition.
Field notes
Articles written by consultants between engagements—checklists, questions to ask internally, and lessons from South African migration projects.
A cutover checklist we copy into every roadmap
Verification steps for DNS, secrets, background workers, and support desk scripts the night before go-live.
Drawing boundaries in a legacy monolith before you split services
How we mark seams in code that was never meant to be distributed—and when to leave the monolith intact for another release cycle.