https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/Clear thinking. Practical technology.en https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/2026-year-in-review/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/2026-year-in-review/Upgrades, migrations and integrations. What I worked on this year, what shipped, and what I'd do differently.Year in review https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/a-hubspot-backup-you-can-actually-browse/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/a-hubspot-backup-you-can-actually-browse/A read-only backup of configuration, records and files, plus a small web app to look through it.HubSpotBackupDuckDBNode.js https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/moving-a-large-file-set-out-of-salesforce/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/moving-a-large-file-set-out-of-salesforce/A resumable export, an audit log, and a read-only check that told us exactly what had landed.MigrationSalesforceAWSDynamoDB https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/making-a-slow-partner-call-fail-predictably/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/making-a-slow-partner-call-fail-predictably/A configurable timeout, a correlation id, and logs that hide passwords but keep usernames.IntegrationResiliencyLogging https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/planning-an-upgrade-when-there-are-no-tests/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/planning-an-upgrade-when-there-are-no-tests/How I approached a Grails 7 and Java 17 upgrade of a large production app with almost no test coverage.GrailsJavaUpgradesTesting https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/keying-hubspot-to-our-own-ids/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/keying-hubspot-to-our-own-ids/What identifies a record when two systems both think they own it, and why blank fields are dangerous.HubSpotIntegrationWebhooks https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/what-grails-7-and-activemq-6-actually-broke/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/what-grails-7-and-activemq-6-actually-broke/The unglamorous list of fixes from upgrading an integration service and a core app.GrailsActiveMQSpringUpgrades https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/showing-the-sql-before-running-it/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/showing-the-sql-before-running-it/A debug panel for a report builder, and a toggle between two backends.ReactReportingTooling https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/generating-cypress-tests-from-a-role-matrix/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/generating-cypress-tests-from-a-role-matrix/How a small generator produced thousands of role checks, and what the hand-written tests were for.TestingCypressCI https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/amit-kulkarni-software-engineer-technology-leader/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/amit-kulkarni-software-engineer-technology-leader/How responsibility grows from writing code to leading technology and innovation, and what to build along the way.Technology LeadershipCareer https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/enterprise-integrations-workflow-first/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/enterprise-integrations-workflow-first/A practical framework for defining ownership, failure handling, and support before connecting enterprise applications.Enterprise IntegrationSoftware Architecture https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/saas-cost-optimization-start-with-usage/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/saas-cost-optimization-start-with-usage/Review SaaS costs through usage, business outcomes, dependencies, and measurable service requirements before changing contracts or tools.SaaS OptimizationTechnology Strategy https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/modernize-platforms-without-losing-business-context/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/modernize-platforms-without-losing-business-context/Plan software modernization around preserved workflows, explicit tradeoffs, and reversible delivery rather than a technology replacement alone.Platform ModernizationSoftware Architecture https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/engineering-leadership-make-decisions-clear/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/engineering-leadership-make-decisions-clear/Help engineering teams move forward with explicit outcomes, documented choices, clear ownership, and useful feedback.Engineering LeadershipTeam Development https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/hubspot-free-what-you-can-build/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/hubspot-free-what-you-can-build/Custom objects need Enterprise, so we used the standard objects and treated the limits as part of the lesson.HubSpotPlanning https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/static-token-app-and-scopes/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/static-token-app-and-scopes/The CLI key and the app token are different credentials with different scopes. Mixing them up cost us a few 403s.HubSpotAPI https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/properties-pipelines-forms-as-code/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/properties-pipelines-forms-as-code/Idempotent scripts that create things the first time and update them every time after.HubSpotAutomation https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/three-ticket-types-one-pipeline/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/three-ticket-types-one-pipeline/We wanted different forms to create different kinds of tickets. A field beat a second pipeline.HubSpotDesign https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/sample-data-load-update-verify/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/sample-data-load-update-verify/A seeded generator, batch loading, a guarded mass update and a verify script that says PASS or FAIL.HubSpotTesting https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/company-site-on-aws/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/company-site-on-aws/A private bucket behind CloudFront, a certificate in the right region, and DNS records you can read.AWSInfrastructure https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/a-brand-you-can-rebuild/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/a-brand-you-can-rebuild/Tokens, a vector K drawn in a script, an outlined wordmark and a mistake that looked like a Q.BrandDesign systems https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/many-sites-one-cloudfront/https://blog.kulkarniinc.com/many-sites-one-cloudfront/A small viewer-request function routes hostnames to folders, and one flag in a deploy script stops it deleting them.AWSInfrastructure