While we may have reached the peak of digital transformation efforts, the hardest challenges surely lie ahead. According to Gartner estimates, 91% of businesses are now engaged in some type of digital initiative, but the increasing adoption has also unveiled some significant shortcomings of extensive digital development. Large, monolithic software solutions can no longer offer […]
In today’s fast-changing technological and business environments, modernizing mission-critical apps is a high priority for companies that want to improve or even just maintain their competitive position. Yet modernization efforts often fall short of yielding the hoped-for benefits. A recent McKinsey report highlights a major reason for such failures: “as companies modernize their IT, a […]
Most companies carry technical debt, costing them 20% to 40% of their technology’s value. Over 60% of chief information officers believe their technical debt will continue to grow. Some suggest the debt adds 20% to 30% to the cost of any development project. Yet, there’s no consensus as to what equals too much debt. Some […]
How all organizations can learn to spot the warning signs Until recently, “technical debt” was a term reserved mostly for those in IT, specifically, architects, developers, app owners and IT leaders. Thanks to a few high-profile outages at Southwest Airlines, the FAA, and Twitter, technical debt has made it to mainstream media outlets which are […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’re excited to share that vFunction has been named in the Gartner 2023 Measure and Monitor Technical Debt With 5 Types of Tools. According to Gartner, “Growing technical debt negatively impacts feature delivery, quality, and predictability of software applications. Software engineering leaders should introduce tools to proactively measure and monitor technical debt at both the […]
Technical debt. It’s a term most people have never heard of. But over the holiday season of 2022, thousands of air travelers became personally acquainted, much to their dismay, with the disastrous impact a failure to modernize critical applications and eliminate technical debt can have on companies and their customers. Starting on December 2, 2022, […]
As a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology Officer (CTO), you and your team may have spent weeks, if not months, every year measuring the technical debt of your legacy applications and infrastructure. You’ve examined aging frameworks, software defect patterns, code quality, release frequencies, and technical debt ratios. You’ve presented the data to other […]
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 […]
