Malaika Consultants — BlogEngineering notes and case studies from the Malaika Consultants team — legacy modernization, practical AI, and shipping to production.https://malaikaconsultants.com/en-usFrom WordPress to Astro: Why We Rebuilt Our Own Sitehttps://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 GMTCutover, and Proving You Didn't Break Anythinghttps://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 GMTThe Bugs a Faithful Rewrite Surfaceshttps://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 GMTThe Constraint That Shaped Everythinghttps://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 GMTMigrate from SVN to Git in 7 Easy Stepshttps://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 GMTNever Prefix Your Stored Procedures with sp_https://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