Thinking about the systems behind the technology.
Longer perspectives on applied AI, enterprise software, architecture and the engineering choices that shape useful technology.
Advista Pro: Engineering AI-Assisted Brand Placement in Video
How Xtreme Systems Solutions combined computer vision, placement controls and a rendering workflow to support brand insertion into moving video scenes.
Agent Skills for Enterprise: What to Verify Before a Claude API Rollout
Anthropic’s Agent Skills donation advances an open standard. Before adopting it through Claude’s API, assess workspace access, runtime constraints and data retention.
Node.js Security Updates: Planning a Controlled Production Upgrade
A practical approach to assessing Node.js security updates, prioritizing affected services and scoping regression checks before production deployment.
Streamlining Cross-Border Travel Operations Through Unified Architecture
Examine how Xtreme Systems Solutions engineered a unified multi-country travel ecosystem for AAN Tourism, resolving operational fragmentation across direct booking, B2B agent workflows, and back-office administration.
Custom Software or ERP Configuration: A Decision Guide
A practical decision framework for operations and finance leaders evaluating workflow fit, data ownership, integration burden, and total operating cost.
When ERP Configuration Becomes Technical Debt: Spotting the Tipping Point
Discover how to spot the tipping point where ERP workarounds turn into brittle technical debt, and learn how to scope custom software safely.
Modernize Business Rules Without Losing Them
Modernize enterprise software by discovering hidden business rules, testing critical workflows and moving responsibility in controlled, reversible stages.
AI Products Need More Than a Model
Build AI products around reliable data, evaluation, user control and operational recovery so the application remains useful beyond its first demonstration.
Agentic AI: Boundaries Before Autonomy
Design enterprise AI agents with explicit authority, bounded tool access, useful evidence and recovery paths before expanding their autonomy in production.
Focused on decisions behind real systems.
Applied AI
Architecture around models, agents, enterprise context and action.
Modernization
How systems evolve without losing critical operating knowledge.
Product architecture
The application and data decisions surrounding digital products.