by DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 25, 2026, 7:07:12 PM
We looked at 1,105 modernization inquiries from a twelve-month period. Two-thirds of them named a language that shipped in 1998. The size of the world’s legacy code estate gets estimated …
Read Storyby Oscar Poveda, on Aug 15, 2026, 10:23:32 AM
Every engineering team modernizing a legacy application has already run the experiment. Someone pastes a VB6 module, a PowerBuilder datawindow, or a .clw file from Clarion into a chat window …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Jun 7, 2026, 12:00:00 AM
When you're considering modernizing a legacy app, it can be hard to figure out where to even start. At GAPVelocity AI, we see teams with legacy applications written anywhere from …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 6, 2026, 7:01:46 PM
It isn't a quality score. On a twenty-year-old codebase, the comment-to-code ratio is one of the cheapest risk signals you can read if you know what you're looking at. Every …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 14, 2026, 1:16:43 PM
A field guide to the last 30% and why it's where modernization projects live or die. You pasted your VB6 module into Claude. Or maybe ChatGPT. Maybe Copilot. And what …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Dec 3, 2025, 6:40:43 PM
The average global enterprise is burning over $370 million annually on inefficiencies rooted in legacy systems. That's not a typo, and it’s not just a maintenance cost; it’s a compounding …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Sep 4, 2025, 8:36:31 AM
So, you’ve been looking into creating a new web app with Blazor but have run into one dilemma: do you go with Blazor WebAssembly (WASM) or Blazor Server for your …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Apr 14, 2025, 7:55:32 AM
Why Cloud, Why Now? Clarion 6.0 had its run. It helped countless developers build line-of-business apps quickly, and for its time, it was efficient. But holding onto Clarion today is …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Feb 16, 2025, 5:00:00 AM
Clinging to outdated data access technologies can expose your business to significant risks. If your VB6 applications still rely on Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O), it’s time to face a …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Dec 22, 2024, 3:00:00 AM
If you've ever worked with us here at GAPVelocity AI, or used our tools, you know that our tools automate code migration with what we call the Evolution Framework. Legacy …
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