AI

In a World of AI Software, the Right People Are More Important Than Ever

In software, everyone is moving faster now. Point an AI coding tool at a problem, describe what you want, and in minutes you have working code. It compiles. It runs.

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Marc Kleinschmidt

10 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

AI

Using Ai When One User's Bug Report Is All You Have

One person messages you. They tried to search for a document and it failed. No alert fired. No dashboard turned red. Nobody else has said a word about it. That

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Humberto Hernandez

12 Jun 2026 · 7 min read

AI

# Embrace the Vibe

"Vibe" is an unfortunate term that implies an emotional response or feeling; however, I want you to maintain reason as you "vibe" a plan. In the

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Daniel Matthis

8 May 2026 · 8 min read

Architecture

Putting Numbers on the Fuzzy Stuff: Architecture Governance with AppFaktors

At 27Global, we build software for clients across a lot of industries and each project brings its own tech stack, its own quirks, and its own definition of "done.

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Marc Kleinschmidt

10 Apr 2026 · 6 min read

AWS

Auditing Application Security in AWS

Introduction Security stops being an abstract concern the moment your application can reach into the physical world. On one of our recent client projects, the application had the potential to

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Daniel Matthis

21 Nov 2025 · 6 min read

Azure

Building a Confluence to Azure DevOps Migration Tool with Claude Code

Skip to the repo and start your own migration: https://github.com/patspace/confluence-to-azure-devops-wiki Background When I first started at 27Global in 2015, we used a self-hosted tool, Redmine, to

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Patrick Kinne

15 Sep 2025 · 4 min read

Azure

Setting Up And Using Azure Application Insights In Development

Application Insights is a powerful tool for monitoring and troubleshooting which is provided by Microsoft Azure. It is designed to help developers monitor the performance, availability, and usage of their applications.

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Marc Kleinschmidt

2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read

Architecture

A Week in the Life of a 27Global Architect

Architect is an impressive title, especially in the technical world, but many don’t fully understand what an Architect does, or what the role entails.

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Kelly Fisher

31 May 2024 · 5 min read

Data Engineering

How We Governed Data Lake and SQL Server using Unity Catalog across Multi-Environments

This blog articulates our approach to configuring Unity Catalog to govern both the data lake and SQL Server in a centralized manner across multiple environments.

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Sun jang

17 May 2024 · 4 min read

Cloud Engineering

Unveiling the Power of Logic Apps in Azure: Standard vs. Consumption Models

Greetings, Azure Enthusiasts! 🚀 In the recent project, we had to make the choice between Standard and Consumption Logic Apps in Azure which can significantly impact the efficiency and scalability of

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Mark Myers

3 May 2024 · 2 min read

Architecture

Development and the Epic struggle against (Date)Time.

When it comes to application development time, and by extension, dates are inevitable. We store them everywhere and for everything: user's date of birth, last updated date, product

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Marc Kleinschmidt

15 Mar 2024 · 5 min read

Cloud Engineering

Protecting data at rest: Encrypting an RDS Instance

Introduction Using the KMS (Key Management Service) in AWS you can encrypt your data at rest on your RDS instance. In today's IT world with an ever-growing need

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Ethan Fank

8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read

Cloud Engineering

Self-Hosted CI/CD Runners: Choosing Between Ephemeral and Permanent Architectures

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) has revolutionized software development by enabling automation of the build, test, and deployment process.

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Brandon Givens

14 Feb 2024 · 2 min read

Cloud Engineering

Building an AWS Landing Zone: Setting Your Cloud Infrastructure Up for Success

A robust AWS landing zone segments accounts by function—like Security and DevOps—to enhance security, streamline management, and support precise cost tracking, enabling efficient scaling and adaptation.

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Brandon Givens

5 Feb 2024 · 4 min read

AWS

Accessing Your Elastic Container Service Tasks on Fargate Using ECSExec

ECSExec allows you to login to a running Elastic Container Service (ECS) task without the need of opening additional ports or managing separate logins. ECSExec can be used with command

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Anthony Miller

31 Jan 2024 · 2 min read

Architecture

Debugging Windows based App Service Startup in Azure

Azure Windows based App Services are a fantastic option for hosting native .Net applications in the cloud. In service of the hosted applications, Microsoft provides a number of extremely valuable

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Kelly Fisher

3 Jan 2024 · 4 min read

Architecture

How to setup Docker on M-series Mac to run x86_64 images

Newer MacOS laptops have M-series processors which are arm64, not x86/64 like their Intel predecessors. Some docker images do not have an arm64 image yet released to public registries

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Russell Parks

8 Dec 2023 · 1 min read