Does "modernization" make you picture a soul-crushing rewrite of untested code, endless meetings, and a migration that drags on forever? What if modernizing your .NET application could be more like gardening than demolition?

Let's explore how to incrementally modernize .NET systems without rewrites or trauma. I'll talk about how to

Carve out domains from 2500-line CustomerService.cs files,

Introduce defensive coding practices that make brittle systems resilient,

Use Azure to boost uptime, simplify development, and avoid those 3AM Slack pings.

We'll also look at the risks of standing still and how the cost of not modernizing might be higher than you think and that the first step to a modern techstack that are able to run with all the new cool tools, may be smaller than you think.