From the blog
Notes on keeping critical software alive: regulation, resilience, maintenance and where AI actually helps.
When Someone Else’s Outage Stops Your Business: Designing Systems That Survive Supplier Failure
Ask an engineer how many external services their system depends on and you will usually get a number. Ask them to list all of them, and the number grows while they…
NIS2 and Your Legacy Systems: Compliance Obligations Your Old Software Was Never Designed For
If your company runs in Belgium and the Netherlands, you are currently living under two different versions of the same law. That is not a paradox, it is the practical reality of NIS2 in 2026, and it has direct…
Digital Sovereignty: Why Your Technology Partner Matters as Much as Your Cloud
For years, “digital sovereignty” sounded like a Brussels word: something discussed in policy papers, not in board meetings. That has changed. Over the past two years it has moved from an abstract ambition to a…
The EU AI Act and Your Existing Systems: What Changes for Development and Maintenance
Most coverage of the EU AI Act asks what it means for new AI projects. That’s the easier half of the…
AI and GDPR: How EU Companies Can Adopt AI Without Breaking Data Rules
For most European companies, the question that stalls an AI project isn’t technical. It’s legal: are we even allowed to do this with our…
Software Resilience in the Age of AI: Why Running Software Is Much Harder Than Building an MVP
Launching a minimum viable product is an important milestone. It proves that a concept can be transformed into working software. It may also confirm that users are interested, that the main workflow makes…
Understanding LLM Wikis, FDEs and Other Terms Shaping the AI Era
Artificial intelligence has introduced an entirely new vocabulary into business and technology…
Using AI in Business: Where It Creates Value (and Where It Doesn’t)
Every mid-size company is being told it needs AI. Far fewer are being told where AI actually helps, where it quietly wastes money, and how to tell the difference before spending a budget on it. This guide is…
Critical System Maintenance: How to Keep Business-Critical Software Reliable, Secure, and Ready for Growth
Business-critical systems are the applications, platforms, databases, integrations, and digital workflows that a company depends on every day. When they work well, operations feel seamless. When they fail, the…
Keeping Critical Systems Alive: A Proactive Maintenance Playbook
Some software can fail on a Friday night and wait until Monday. Critical systems cannot. When an ERP, a billing engine or an order platform goes down, the business stops — orders aren’t taken, invoices aren’t…
Critical System Maintenance: A Practical Guide for Mid-size Companies
Most mid-size companies depend on at least one system that is quietly indispensable and quietly ageing: an ERP, an order portal, a billing engine, a scheduling tool. It works, the business runs on it, and…
Maintain or Rewrite? How to Decide What to Do With an Aging System
“Should we just rebuild it?” is one of the most expensive questions a company can answer wrongly. Rewrites are seductive, a clean slate, modern tools, no legacy baggage — but they are also where budgets and…
The True Cost of Unmaintained Software
Doing nothing feels free. A system that still works does not send invoices, so the cost of leaving it unmaintained stays invisible, until it isn’t. Here is what that hidden bill actually contains, and why it…
How to Modernize a Legacy System Without Downtime
The fear that stops most modernization projects is downtime. If a system is critical, you cannot simply switch it off for a weekend and hope the replacement works on Monday. The good news: the techniques that…
Outsourcing System Maintenance in Belgium & the Netherlands
For many mid-size companies in Belgium and the Netherlands, maintaining critical software in-house is harder every year. Senior engineers are scarce and expensive, the people who know the legacy systems are…
Dink Invests in Espresso Labs to Accelerate International Expansion
Dink has formalised a strategic investment in Espresso Labs, a Brazilian software house specialised in innovation and digital product development. The investment turns a close, four-year working relationship…
Adding AI to Legacy Systems Without Replacing Them
There is enormous pressure to “add AI” right now, and a lot of it is noise. But for companies running established systems, there is a real and practical opportunity: tailored AI can add genuine value on top of…
A Global Approach to Tackle Local & Specific Challenges
There is a persistent myth in software services: that the best partner for a local problem is always a local generalist. In reality, the hardest, most specific challenges — a legacy ERP nobody documented, a…
Why Internal IT Teams Often Struggle to Drive New Innovation Projects
Most internal IT teams are full of capable people who want to build new things. Yet innovation projects stall again and again. The reason is rarely talent: it is structural: run-the-business work crowds out…