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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 […]
Every software development project has three constraints—time, resources, and quality. Knowing how to balance them is at the core of delivering consistent success. A well-balanced project resembles an equilateral triangle where the same stability is available no matter which side forms the base. Over time, even the most balanced software loses stability. New features are […]
The three-layered (or three-tiered) application architecture has served for decades as the fundamental design framework for modern software development. It came to the fore in the 1990s as the predominant development approach for client-server applications and is still widely used today. Many organizations continue to depend on three-layer Java applications for some of their most […]
To keep pace in their marketplace, many businesses today are attempting to modernize their business and the legacy apps they depend on by moving them to the cloud. But experience has shown that migrating workloads requires a structured framework to guide developers and IT staffers in this new environment. That’s what the cloud center of […]
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 […]
ChatGPT, the most advanced conversational AI chatbot yet publicly revealed, is taking the world by storm. Millions of ordinary people are using it, and most are highly enthusiastic about its ability to create human-like written content that helps them in their daily lives. Software professionals, too, are taking note of this new kid on the […]
When Watts Humphrey stated that every business is a software business, organizations realized that their survival depended on software. Today, developers also need to view cybersecurity as part of their responsibilities. It’s not enough to add security as an afterthought. A global shortage of cybersecurity talent continues, with an estimated 3.4 million positions unfilled in […]
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, […]
It Takes a First-Class Seat: Demonstrating the Benefits of Continuous Application Modernization Continuous application modernization allows organizations to address legacy code in iterative steps. It adheres to an agile-like methodology where incremental improvements are delivered faster with less risk than traditional waterfall methods, where multiple updates are delivered at once. However, an effective agile environment […]
What was your most consistent complaint of 2022? Did you have some specific work complaints? Were applications slow to load? Did you grumble at the 3:00 AM notifications when backups failed? What about all those Zoom meetings? Pointing out behaviors or circumstances to effect change can lead to innovative solutions when analyzed and addressed. However, […]
