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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. […]
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 […]
Many companies still depend on legacy applications for some of their most business-critical processing. But those apps typically don’t support the kind of technological agility that’s needed for continuing success in today’s ever-changing marketplace environment. That’s why modernizing legacy apps is an accelerating trend among leading companies. But app modernization is not easy—it requires highly […]
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 […]
Companies today must be highly agile to meet ever-evolving marketplace demands. But the legacy applications many still depend on for much of their business-critical processing are ill-equipped to support that kind of agility. That’s why identifying and overcoming app modernization challenges is critically important. The Consortium For Information & Software Quality (CISQ) highlights the necessity […]
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 […]
