As geospatial technology continues to evolve, traditional desktop GIS applications like QGIS are facing challenges such as handling large datasets, data siloing, high skills barriers, and static outputs. To address these challenges, many organizations are modernizing their geospatial tech stack with cloud-native solutions like CARTO, which offer benefits including interoperability, scalability, data security, democratization, and collaboration. By pairing QGIS for data preparation and geometry editing with CARTO for scalable analytics and visualization, users can harness the best of both worlds, creating a comprehensive and efficient geospatial tech stack that complements rather than replaces traditional desktop GIS capabilities.