RIP Corp Editorial Team
Every post on the RIP Corp blog and in Stories is written and maintained by our editorial team.
We write about building software that has to keep working: legacy modernization, platform engineering, reliability and failure design, vendor risk, and how to choose a development partner in regulated industries. Stories looks at the software behind specific industries and what it takes to keep it running for decades.
Our articles are produced collectively, draw on delivery experience and public sources such as vendor post-incident reports and announcements, and are updated when the facts change.
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Blog posts
- AWS Proton's End of Support: A Lesson in Platform Vendor Risk
- Azure's 18-Region Gateway Outage: What Engineering Leaders Should Take From It
- Building Software That Survives an Industry Downturn
- Designing for Failure: Chaos Engineering Basics for Non-Unicorns
- Google Cloud Storage's 12-Hour Outage: What the Status Page Delay Actually Cost
- How to Choose a Custom Software Partner in a Regulated Industry
- Modernizing Legacy Systems Without a Big-Bang Rewrite
- Platform Engineering for Mid-Size Companies: When It Pays Off
- Schneider Electric Buys PTC: What a $22.6B Acquisition Means for Your Stack
- Technical Debt Has an Interest Rate, Here Is How to Calculate It
- The Real Cost of Vendor Lock-In (And How to Avoid It)
- When to Rewrite vs Refactor a Legacy System
Stories
- 2023 Corporate In Memoriam: The Year Software Sobered Up
- 2024 Corporate In Memoriam: The Year AI Had to Ship
- 2025 Corporate In Memorium: The Year Software Grew Agents
- Airline Software That Stays Up When Everything Else Delays
- Banking Software for the Day It All Breaks
- Building Software That Ships When the Rocket Does
- Building Software for the Companies Inside Companies
- Commerce Software That Survives the Brand
- Commodities Trading Software Built for Real Money
- Cosplay Cops, Special Ops, and the Software That Keeps Miners Alive
- Game Backends That Ship Fast and Never Fall Over
- It's a Wonderful RIP Corp: Surviving the Peak-Season Rush
- Manufacturing Software That Knows What the Factory Is Doing
- Minisode: The Software Behind a Sold-Out Night
- RIP Docs: What the VICE Bankruptcy Teaches Media About Software
- Retail Software That Unifies the Store and the App
- Software That Outlives the Cycle
- Software for Passing It All On
- Streaming Software That Doesn't Get Left Behind
- The Software Behind Starting a Company
- The Software Quietly Guarding Everyone's Retirement
- The Software That Actually Builds a Chip
- Trust and Safety Software That Actually Protects the Marketplace