Sirrus7

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What we're learning, and where the work is going.

Articles, podcasts, and events from the team at Sirrus7.

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FROM THE FIELD · CASE STUDY

When the Math Says 60 Years

A leading US wireless carrier had hundreds of millions of lines of Java code stuck on Java 8. Internal leadership had done the math honestly: 5,500 engineers, fully allocated, would take roughly 60 years to bring the estate current.

January 14, 2026 · 6 MIN
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FROM THE FIELD · CASE STUDY

The Right Tool Still Needs the Right Foundation

Standardizing on a single observability platform was the right call. Getting there without breaking the budget required rethinking the architecture — twice.

June 1, 2026 · 3 MIN
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FROM THE FIELD · CASE STUDY

You Don't Have to Boil the Ocean

A legacy system past end-of-life, built on technologies no longer supported, relied on by more than 20 teams who couldn't agree on what came next. The way we got it moving wasn't what anyone expected.

May 11, 2026 · 6 MIN
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EVENT · DISPATCH

The AI Readiness Gap Is Bigger Than You Think

Executives are excited. Boards are demanding action. And almost nobody has the data infrastructure, governance, or modernized stack to back any of it up. We saw this pattern play out at MURTEC 2026 — and it has nothing to do with restaurants.

March 19, 2026 · 5 MIN
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THE CONTEXT WINDOW · EPISODE

You Rob Banks Because That's Where the Money Is

Reinforcement learning vs. LLMs, the iron triangle of modernization, and why AI might be quietly affecting the next generation of expert engineers.

December 16, 2025 · 6 MIN
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THE CONTEXT WINDOW · EPISODE

Is AI Actually Intelligent? The Wrong Question and the Right One

Sentience, liability, junior developers, and what actually happens to the job market.

November 12, 2025 · 6 MIN
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FROM THE FIELD · CASE STUDY

When a 6-Month Project Is 15 Months Late

A non-technical executive is partway through a software project that the vendor told them would take six months. They are now fifteen months in and starting to wonder whether it ever will ship.

October 21, 2025 · 6 MIN
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THE CONTEXT WINDOW · EPISODE

We're Here, We're Asking, and We Don't Have All the Answers

What we learned from recording our first episode, and why the most honest thing you can say about AI right now is that no one has it fully figured out.

October 14, 2025 · 4 MIN

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