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In today’s market environment, the ability to quickly take advantage of new technological capabilities is of paramount importance to a company’s ability to maintain or enhance its competitive position. That’s why for many businesses, the modernization of their legacy application portfolio has become not just a high priority but an existential necessity. The problem such […]
Part 3 in the Uncovering Technical Debt series: An Intellyx BrainBlog for vFunction. Check out part one here. Check out part two here. When Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) hit the scene in the late 1990s, it was a welcome enterprise-class extension of the explosively popular Java language. J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition, as it […]
Almost any organization that develops software for internal or external use will sooner or later have to face the issue of technical debt. That’s especially the case if the organization depends on legacy apps for some of its critical business processing. Because technical debt makes it extremely difficult for a company to maintain and update […]
Many companies depend on legacy software for some of their most business-critical processing. But useful as they are, those applications can hold companies back from being able to keep pace with rapidly changing marketplace demands. The culprit is the technical debt of their legacy apps. Technical debt makes software difficult and risky to change, which […]
For companies that depend on legacy applications for critical business processing, modernizing those apps to make them compatible with today’s technologically sophisticated cloud ecosystem is crucial. But because most legacy apps are monolithic, updating them can be a difficult, time-consuming, and risky process. A monolithic codebase is organized as a single unit that has function […]
For many companies today, modernizing their legacy apps is a top priority. They recognize that although those apps are critical to their business operations, they’re also major hindrances to the organization’s ability to keep pace in its marketplace. That’s because legacy apps, which are typically structured as monolithic architectures, are very difficult to update to […]
This post was originally featured on Forbes In my previous article, we talked about the cultural problems caused by an unwillingness or the fear of modernizing monolithic applications. After all, cloud-native architectures built on microservices offer compelling value—and are exciting for developers to work with. However, even if organizations recognize these facts and decide to actively pursue […]
Part 2 in the Uncovering Technical Debt series: An Intellyx BrainBlog for vFunction. Check out part one here. Decompose, analyze, break into services, refactor. Whatever methods and tools you use to bring legacy code and architecture up to modern standards, there’s a science to enterprise application modernization. But what if that science is archaeology? If […]
This article is the first in a four-part series. In part two, we’ll explore the challenges in navigating the cultural change of modernization. Part three will delve into sustaining the resulting transformation. We’ll wrap up in part four, as we discuss evolving toward modern-day technology goals. At its most basic, technical debt represents some kind […]
“Application Modernization” has suddenly become a top priority for executive teams in large enterprises. In the last 2 years, CIOs have begun to rethink the concept of “application modernization”, making it Top 3 priority (after Security and Performance), according to this CIO.com survey. So what the heck happened? By most reports, it turns out that […]
