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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 […]
Why do application modernizations fail 79% of the time? Red Hat and vFunction answered that question at Red Hat Summit 2023 and provided three recipes for success. Co-presented by Markus Nagel, Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat and Bob Quillin, Chief Ecosystem Officer at vFunction, the session is now available on-demand on the Red […]
Can technical debt cause business disasters? Just ask Southwest Airlines: their technical debt caused a shutdown during the 2022 Christmas season that cost the company more than $1 billion, not to mention the goodwill of irate customers who were stranded by the collapse of the carrier’s flight and crew scheduling system. Or you could ask […]
Companies today depend on legacy applications for some of their most business-critical processing. In many cases, those apps still do what they were designed to do quite well. But to retain or expand their value in this age of accelerated innovation, they need to be fully integrated into today’s dominant technological environment, the cloud. That’s […]
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 […]
In 2021, the Standish Group published a report on the effectiveness of different approaches to software modernization. The report looked at the efficacy of replacing legacy solutions with entirely new code or using existing components as a basis for modernization. The authors also identified an approach they called “Infinite Flow,” where modernization was a continuous […]
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 […]
