News Summary

• A new storefront is greenfield.
• Clear ground with no legacy baggage.
• An integration with an existing ERP or CRM is brownfield by default.
• It’s an archaeological dig into an old system you didn’t build.
• Without explicit architectural patterns to handle that gap you’re just playing infrastructure roulette.
• Forcing humans to manually heal a cracking system is the most expensive bottleneck of a poorly planned integration.
• The fixes here aren't exotic but they do need to be explicitly planned, and budgeted upfront.