Remember when we would build applications and have everything working perfectly on our local machine or development server, only to have it crumble as it moved to higher environments, i.e., from dev and testing to pre-prod and production? As we pushed towards production, software development’s “good old days” were plagued with a dreaded mix of […]
In a recent survey of corporate IT leaders, 87% of respondents said that modernizing their critical legacy apps is a top priority. When it comes to developing an effective approach to the complex and difficult task of application modernization, a great place to start is by taking an in-depth look at a Strangler Fig Pattern […]
As more organizations implement a shift-left approach to software development, architects are looking for ways to become part of a collaborative team. They can no longer deliver a design to development and walk away. With a continuous modernization approach, friction between what was planned and what was implemented disappears as teams work together to address […]
How to avoid mistakes when modernizing applications As Chief Ecosystem Officer at vFunction, Bob Quillin is considered an expert in the topic of application modernization, specifically, modernizing monolithic Java applications into microservices and building a business case to do so. In his role at vFunction, inevitably, he is asked the question, “Where do I start?” […]
How to get buy-in and budget for successful application modernization Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer at vFunction, is an industry expert when it comes to application modernization. He often finds that the biggest hurdle to application modernization is developing a compelling business case to take on such a complicated task that can be costly and […]
Why do application modernizations fail 79% of the time? Red Hat and vFunction answered that question at Red Hat Summit 2023 and provided three recipes for success. Co-presented by Markus Nagel, Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat and Bob Quillin, Chief Ecosystem Officer at vFunction, the session is now available on-demand on the Red […]
In 2021, the Standish Group published a report on the effectiveness of different approaches to software modernization. The report looked at the efficacy of replacing legacy solutions with entirely new code or using existing components as a basis for modernization. The authors also identified an approach they called “Infinite Flow,” where modernization was a continuous […]
vFunction today launched the Continuous Modernization Manager (CMM), a new product for architects and developers to continuously monitor, detect, and pinpoint application architecture drift issues before they cause technical debt meltdowns. vFunction CMM enables software architects to shift left and prevent technical debt disasters by baselining, observing, pinpointing, and alerting on application architecture drift issues […]
You’ve been given the green light to modernize a legacy system; however, the monolithic application provides core functionality to the entire organization. It has to remain operational during the process. You could leave the existing code in production while developing a microservices-based architecture, but you don’t have the resources to modernize and maintain the old […]
Part 4 in the Uncovering Technical Debt Series from Intellyx, for vFunction. [Check out part 1 | 2 | 3 here.] We’ve dug deep into our technology stacks, uncovering all of the legacy artifacts and monoliths that we could find from past incarnations of our organization. We’ve cataloged them, rebuilt them to modern coding standards, […]
