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Enterprises have been implementing digital transformation initiatives for over a decade, but even now, most of those efforts fall short. What gives? Digital leaders frequently focus the effort on software. Software, however, is not the point of digital transformation. Such transformation is indeed software-powered, but even more so, it is customer-driven. Customer-driven change as broad […]
Technical debt is a problem at the best of times, but during periods of rapid innovation, it can become overwhelming. Innovation, after all, is never linear. It comes in fits and starts, with dead ends and sudden turns aplenty. Every twist in this tale of innovation leaves something behind – some tool or experiment that […]
In March 2023, Amazon.com published an article on how it rearchitected its Prime Video offering from a distributed microservices architecture to a ‘monolithic’ architecture running within a single Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) stack. Despite a reduction in infrastructure cost of over 90%, the seemingly counterintuitive move generated consternation across the cloud architecture community. Monoliths […]
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 […]
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 […]
Use AI and Cloud-Native Principles for Selective Modernization In the late 1990s, Java quickly proved invaluable for building applications that depended on n-tier architectures to deliver web sites at scale. The web wouldn’t be what it is today if it weren’t for the power of Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE). Today, those massive object-oriented applications […]
If enterprises have learned one thing from the Covid era, it’s that digital transformation is more than a handful of projects. Instead, it represents a strategic shift, breaking down organizational and technological silos to better align with the needs of customers and employees. Enterprises have also learned that digital transformation is never complete. Rather than […]
