Engineering notes and case studies from the Malaika Consultants team — legacy modernization, practical AI, and shipping to production.https://malaikaconsultants.com/en-ushttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/asp-net-web-forms-migration/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/asp-net-web-forms-migration/The technical shape of an ASP.NET Web Forms migration: the real gaps (ViewState, HttpContext, the page lifecycle), .NET Standard as the shared-code bridge, and a YARP + System.Web Adapters strangler-fig to move to ASP.NET Core one page at a time.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/calling-python-from-a-dotnet-application/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/calling-python-from-a-dotnet-application/Your app is .NET, but the library or model you need is Python. How to call Python from a .NET application — subprocess, a REST/gRPC service, or in-process interop — the real trade-offs of each, and how to decide whether to cross the boundary at all.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/wordpress-vs-astro-vs-nextjs/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/wordpress-vs-astro-vs-nextjs/WordPress, Astro, or Next.js for a marketing or content site? An honest comparison of the trade-offs — who each is really for, and how to decide — from a team that has built and migrated sites on all three.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/automate-business-reports-with-python/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/automate-business-reports-with-python/The monthly report ritual — export, paste, fix formulas, email — quietly costs you a day and invites errors. What it really costs, and how automating business reports with Python fixes it for good.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/best-sql-query-optimization-tools/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/best-sql-query-optimization-tools/The free built-in SQL Server tools that matter most, the third-party monitors worth paying for, and the point where a tool stops helping and expertise takes over.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/aws-bedrock-pricing-explained/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/aws-bedrock-pricing-explained/How AWS Bedrock pricing really works — the cost model, the drivers that dominate your bill, the extras nobody warns you about, and practical ways to control what you spend.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/what-is-legacy-application-modernization/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/what-is-legacy-application-modernization/What legacy application modernization actually means, why it's urgent now, the strategies that work (rewrite vs. refactor vs. replatform), and how to modernize aging .NET and enterprise systems incrementally — without a risky rewrite.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/dotnet-8-9-end-of-support-what-to-do/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/dotnet-8-9-end-of-support-what-to-do/Microsoft ends support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 on November 10, 2026 — no more security patches. What it actually means, the risk of waiting, and how we move you to .NET 10 without a risky rewrite.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/deploy-an-astro-site-with-github-and-cloudflare-pages/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/deploy-an-astro-site-with-github-and-cloudflare-pages/A complete, step-by-step guide to Astro's architecture, a Git-driven QA → live deployment workflow, and hosting on Cloudflare Pages — the exact stack running this site.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-database-saturation-part-1/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-database-saturation-part-1/How a cache-miss stampede took a production database from a quiet baseline to connection-pool exhaustion in minutes — and why it was a caching story, not a traffic story.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-database-saturation-part-2/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-database-saturation-part-2/In a saturated database, everything looks slow and everything looks guilty. Telling the cause from the victims — and the red herrings — with layered evidence instead of intuition.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-database-saturation-part-3/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-database-saturation-part-3/Plan stability, a covering index, and the 74 indexes we chose not to create — the payoff fixes from a database-saturation incident, most of them small once you know exactly where to aim.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/moving-a-wordpress-site-to-astro/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/moving-a-wordpress-site-to-astro/The honest trade-offs between WordPress and Astro — from a team that just migrated its own site, gotchas and all.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/modernizing-a-legacy-api-part-3/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/modernizing-a-legacy-api-part-3/Choosing a cutover strategy, moving to a new platform, and proving byte-for-byte client compatibility before any real traffic moves.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/modernizing-a-legacy-api-part-2/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/modernizing-a-legacy-api-part-2/The latent defects a careful, one-endpoint-at-a-time rebuild uncovers — and the judgment calls between preserving legacy behavior and quietly fixing it.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/modernizing-a-legacy-api-part-1/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/modernizing-a-legacy-api-part-1/Migrating a production ASP.NET WebForms API to modern .NET with a Clean Architecture — while it stayed live and its clients kept working, untouched.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/migrate-from-svn-to-git-in-7-easy-steps/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/migrate-from-svn-to-git-in-7-easy-steps/Move a Subversion repository to Git and keep every commit, author, and branch. A field-tested, step-by-step migration guide — a refreshed classic from our archive.Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/never-prefix-stored-procedures-with-sp/https://malaikaconsultants.com/blog/never-prefix-stored-procedures-with-sp/A tiny SQL Server naming rule with real performance and correctness consequences — still true in every version. Another refreshed classic from the archive.Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT