Palm Neh · the community
The room where
legacy gets opened.
Palm Neh is the global community of the most ambitious enterprise architects, engineers, and leaders working in mainframe and enterprise modernization. If that’s your work, you belong here — and entry is by application.
chapter 01 · chennai · by application, with résumé · free
The cloud has conferences. The frontier has labs. The people keeping — and freeing — the world’s most important systems have had nothing. Neh is that room.
neh · the practitioners’ room · est. 2026
chapter 01 · chennai
It begins where the company lives.
The first chapter of Palm Neh convenes in Chennai — the land of legacy, walking distance from the people building the engines. In-person sessions, early research on the table, Empire tapings in the room. Chapters in other cities follow; the charter members of Chennai set the tone for all of them.
meets in chennai · remote members welcome everywhere · future chapters announced to members first
Inside the room
What membership carries.
Benchmark drops, methodology previews, and drafts of what lands on the research library — with your name on the review if you tear it apart properly.
Architects who have shipped cutovers, engineers who read hex dumps for fun, leaders carrying billion-dollar estates — arguing in good faith about how this work should be done.
Early access to The Mainframe Empire episodes, and a standing invitation to suggest — or be — a guest.
Written a post-mortem, a pattern, a tool? Neh is where it gets read by the people who will actually use it — and amplified on our channels.
Who applies
Exclusive, but not exclusionary.
You own a target-state diagram someone actually has to build.
COBOL, PL/I, JCL, Db2, CICS — you keep the lights on and know where the bodies are buried.
You carry the program, the budget, and the 2 a.m. cutover calls.
Learning the estate on purpose, while the people who built it are still here to teach.
the bar is seriousness, not seniority · applications read by humans
How entry works
Three steps. No forms.
Apply, résumé attached. The guided flow drafts your application email with you — who you are, what you work on, why the room. Attach your résumé before sending; it’s how the room stays serious.
Join the waitlist. A human reads every application. We admit in waves, so the room grows without losing its signal.
Step inside. Your wave gets the letter, the channels, and the archive. Bring an argument.
If the estate is your work,
this is your room.
applications open · admitted in waves
Apply for the waitlist