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Continuous software modernization is the key to scalability, security, and minimizing both technical debt and architectural drift. Technical debt is a major issue for today’s organizations, costing companies a significant percentage of their tech budgets and limiting growth. According to a survey by McKinsey, 3 out of 10 CIOs dedicate more than 20% of their […]
For over 400 years, people have used the adage, “can’t see the forest for the trees,” to indicate that individuals are so focused on parts of a situation that they lose sight of the bigger picture. The same sentiment is often applied to development teams who appear to ignore or deprioritize more significant issues when […]
As the speed of technology continues to increase, an outdated monolithic architecture limits your organization’s ability to scale and run effectively. Modernizing your software by refactoring to microservices offers increased scalability, allowing your company to optimize the value it gets from the cloud. For many business leaders, modernization is now a priority. According to a […]
Navigating the path through the complexities of technical debt, software architecture refactoring, and application modernization is a major challenge facing architects and development teams today. According to National Geographic, navigation is both an art and a science. The earliest forms of navigation used known landmarks to arrive at a destination. It wasn’t until sailors learned […]
All businesses that depend on modern technology are affected by technical debt. According to a recent McKinsey survey, 10% to 20% of business tech budgets reserved for new projects is redirected to resolve issues related to tech debt. Even worse, unchecked tech debt can lead to operational disruption, slow engineering velocity, and stunt innovation. In […]
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 […]
Introduction You have picked a new destination for your applications that will bring efficiency, ease of maintenance, and upgraded technology, but you are finding that you have to continuously tack due to headwinds such as: You can’t get where you want to go in a direct, straight line because of all the conflicting interests and […]
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 […]
In today’s fast-evolving technological and marketplace environments, the software applications that companies depend on must be able to quickly adapt to the demands of an ever-changing competitive landscape. But as existing features are modified and new ones added, an app’s codebase inevitably becomes more complex, making it increasingly difficult to understand, maintain, and upgrade. How […]
After many meetings and discussions, your company has finally approved the decision to modernize a few key applications and address technical debt. That’s the good news. The bad news is the company wanted it yesterday, and you’re now scrambling to accelerate the app modernization process. Even though you provided a timeline when the project was […]
