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 For organizations focused on digital transformation, existing monolithic application architectures present a major obstacle to modernization initiatives that have become a top priority for CIOs and CTOs alike. Monolithic application architectures stand in the way of today’s highly adaptive, cloud-first, forward-looking approach to delivering faster, better and more efficient […]
This post was originally featured on TheNewStack, sponsored by vFunction. When it comes to refactoring monolithic applications into microservices, most engineering teams have no idea where to start. Additionally, a recent survey revealed that 79% of modernization projects fail, at an average cost of $1.5 million and 16 months of work. In other articles, we discussed […]
Of the three major cloud service providers, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) lags behind Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in terms of market share. But GCP is charging hard—its current 10% market share represents a 2% gain in just a couple of years. One reason for that momentum is that GCP offers a wide […]
The Microsoft Azure Cloud is a popular destination for companies seeking to modernize their legacy applications. Azure provides a variety of fully managed services that make application modernization much easier by shifting much of the infrastructure management workload from developers to the platform itself. These services include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings that allow […]
In today’s rapidly changing marketplace environment, companies face an imperative to modernize their business-critical legacy applications. That’s why, as the State of the CIO Study 2022 notes, modernizing legacy systems and applications is currently among the top priorities of corporate CIOs. In most instances such modernization involves transferring legacy apps to the cloud, which is […]
In a report on managing technical debt, Google researchers make a startling admission: “With a large and rapidly changing codebase, Google software engineers are constantly paying interest on various forms of technical debt.” What’s true of Google is very likely true of your company as well, especially if you have legacy applications you still depend […]
This webinar from ADTMag with guest speakers Moti Rafalin, CEO of vFunction, and KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Senior Analyst at RedMonk, reveals some critical insights with supporting survey data that can help CIOs and architects better understand, plan, prioritize, and succeed with application modernization projects. Insight #1 – Application Modernization Must Be A Dynamic, Not Static, Imperative […]
Over the past few years, we at vFunction have been focusing on the most significant problem inhibiting the third wave of cloud adoption: app modernization. The first wave of cloud adoption included new apps written for the cloud, the second wave focused on lifting and shifting the low-hanging fruit of apps that can relatively easily […]
This post was originally featured on TheNewStack, sponsored by vFunction. If you’re a software developer, then “technical debt” is probably a term you’re familiar with. Technical debt, in plain words, is an accumulation over time of lots of little compromises that hamper your coding efforts. Sometimes, you (or your manager) choose to handle these challenges […]
