Insights

Notes from the workbench.

Practical writing on enterprise engineering, AI integration, and modernisation — the things we'd tell you on a call, written down.

AI integration

The layer between your systems and the model

Enterprise AI projects don't fail at the model — they fail at the seam. What the integration layer actually consists of, and how to build it without betting the year.

Jigar Bagadai · August 2026
Cloud & DevOps

Boring deployments are a feature

If releases are exciting, something is wrong. What a boring pipeline looks like, and why small teams should right-size Kubernetes.

Jigar Bagadai · August 2026
Data & performance

EF Core didn't ruin your performance. The defaults did.

Most slow .NET applications are slow at the data access layer. The usual suspects, and how to find them with evidence instead of vibes.

Jigar Bagadai · August 2026
Office & workflow tooling

When Excel is the real system of record

Every company has spreadsheets that are secretly databases. Why replacing them fails, and how Office.js add-ins modernise the workflow without breaking it.

Jigar Bagadai · August 2026
Modernisation

Three questions before you modernise a legacy .NET system

Rewrites fail when the old system was never understood. What production actually does, why data moves before code, and why slices beat big bangs.

Jigar Bagadai · August 2026