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 […]
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 […]
vFunction has launched Assessment Hub Express to help architects and developers quickly calculate the technical debt of their monolithic Java applications. Assessment Hub Express is a cloud-based version of the recently announced vFunction Assessment Hub and provides a rapid, self-service technical debt assessment solution that is free for up to 3 applications for one year. […]
To meet the challenges posed by both customers and competitors in today’s rapidly-changing marketplace, companies must regularly update and modernize the software applications upon which their business operations depend. In such an environment, technical debt is both inevitable and highly detrimental to these goals. That’s why it’s vitally important for IT leaders to know how […]
This post was originally featured on TheNewStack, sponsored by vFunction. “Dead Code,” aka zombie code, refers to unreachable legacy code residing inside applications and common libraries that is not called by any current services. It shows up unpredictably and grows over time, contributes to technical debt and presents an unknown potential security risk for cyberattacks. […]
Com a estimative de que 80% dos sistemas de negócios do mundo ainda não estão prontos para a nuvem, os executivos começaram a exigir iniciativas para modernizar suas aplicações legadas para a nuvem. Essas aplicações legadas geralmente são grandes sistemas monolíticos com anos ou décadas de dívida técnica acumulada, tornando-as difíceis de mudar, caras e arriscadas […]
