We often spend forty-five minutes debating a single CMS while ignoring the three hundred unmanaged applications running on production hotfixes and 2018 wiki pages. A platform choice only ages well if you look at the entire map and not just the shiny new runtime.

Here is how to audit your stack before the choice hardens into a crisis:

Calculate what percentage of your actual application can run on the platform versus what lives in external databases and cloud accounts.

Verify if your preview environments use production-grade data or if you are just guessing that the code works.

Determine the time required to replatform if a customer requires a specific sovereign region or cloud provider.