Containerization ≠ Modernization: Kick-Start Your True Transformation Journey
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Containers solved a huge deployment headache—but they didn’t magically erase legacy thinking. If your “modernization” effort stopped at lifting-and-shifting monolithic apps into Kubernetes, you’ve simply boxed yesterday’s problems in today’s tech. In this session we’ll unpack why true modernization demands more than orchestration stickers: it requires re-architecting for event-driven, serverless, and AI-augmented patterns that slash time-to-value and operating costs. Drawing on field experience across 50+ enterprise and startup transformations—spanning 8,000+ AWS Lambda functions, real-time data pipelines, and GenAI copilots—we’ll explore: * The Illusion of Progress: Hidden technical debt and cost traps that containers often preserve. * Transformation Levers: Domain-driven decomposition, serverless services, and managed data layers that free teams from infrastructure toil. * GenAI as a Catalyst: Where large-language-model capabilities amplify modernization ROI—and where they don’t. * Change Management Playbook: Culture, skill-matrix, and governance shifts that let teams iterate safely at cloud speed. * Success Metrics & Case Studies: Concrete KPIs (release frequency ↑ 5×, infra spend ↓ 60%) from healthcare, QSR, and fintech modernizations.
Transcript
Containers solved a huge deployment headache—but they didn’t magically erase legacy thinking. If your “modernization” effort stopped at lifting-and-shifting monolithic apps into Kubernetes, you’ve simply boxed yesterday’s problems in today’s tech.
In this session we’ll unpack why true modernization demands more than orchestration stickers: it requires re-architecting for event-driven, serverless, and AI-augmented patterns that slash time-to-value and operating costs. Drawing on field experience across 50+ enterprise and startup transformations—spanning 8,000+ AWS Lambda functions, real-time data pipelines, and GenAI copilots—we’ll explore:
- The Illusion of Progress: Hidden technical debt and cost traps that containers often preserve.
- Transformation Levers: Domain-driven decomposition, serverless services, and managed data layers that free teams from infrastructure toil.
- GenAI as a Catalyst: Where large-language-model capabilities amplify modernization ROI—and where they don’t.
- Change Management Playbook: Culture, skill-matrix, and governance shifts that let teams iterate safely at cloud speed.
- Success Metrics & Case Studies: Concrete KPIs (release frequency ↑ 5×, infra spend ↓ 60%) from healthcare, QSR, and fintech modernizations.
About the speakers
CEO and Co-Founder at AntStack