Major alert: vFunction was just named a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor in AI-Augmented Development and Testing. We’re incredibly grateful and proud of this recognition. We’re also excited about the opportunity to share our platform on a larger scale and bring architectural observability to more enterprises.
According to the “Gartner Cool Vendors™ in AI Augmented Development and Testing for Software Engineering” report, “As the codebase and architectural complexity grow, the processing power required to handle local builds escalates significantly. Many organizations struggle to equip their software engineers with the necessary tools to meet the increasing demand for faster delivery from idea to production, impacting overall productivity and efficiency.” For too long, organizations have long struggled to fully grasp the complexity of their application architectures as they evolve throughout the SDLC. Enterprises juggle all types of application architectures, modular monoliths, distributed monoliths, miniservices, microservices and more, having to make tradeoffs between agility and complexity. Traditional approaches—relying on manual code reviews, fragmented documentation, and institutional knowledge—have proven largely inadequate in identifying and addressing architectural risks and prioritizing necessary fixes at today’s speed of business. This has resulted in an architectural blind spot that has significantly impeded modernization efforts and led to mounting technical debt – particularly architectural technical debt – as well as unrealized revenue potential in the billions.
To remediate technical debt effectively, Gartner recommends that “organizations use architectural observability tools to thoroughly analyze software architecture, identify inconsistencies, and gain deeper insights.”
At vFunction, we see software architecture as a critical but often underutilized driver of business success. We believe being recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor validates our innovative approach to empower engineering teams to innovate faster, address resiliency earlier, build smarter, and create scalable applications that change the trajectory of their business. With our AI-driven architectural observability platform, teams are equipped with valuable insights to find and fix unnecessary complexity and technical debt across large, complex applications and modern, highly distributed microservices health throughout the organization. Software teams use the platform to understand their applications, identify the sources of technical debt, and find refactoring opportunities to enhance scalability, resiliency, and engineering velocity.
Five reasons why we believe vFunction was recognized as a Cool Vendor.
Architectural observability plays a key role in managing the complexities of modern software development. Gartner states that, “By 2027, 80% of software engineering groups will monitor software architecture complexity and architecture technical debt in near real time, up from less than 10% today.” We feel we’re at the forefront of this trend, providing the tools necessary to meet this growing need.
By vigilantly monitoring architectural technical debt and drift across the entire application portfolio, our solution equips software engineering leaders and their teams with the insights necessary to make informed decisions. Here’s why we believe vFunction stands out:
- AI-powered. vFunction’s architectural observability platform understands and visualizes application architecture to reduce technical debt and complexity.
- Find and fix technical debt. vFunction uses extensive data to identify and remediate architectural technical debt across the entire application portfolio.
- Shift left. Address the root causes of technical debt to prevent performance issues before they arise using vFunction’s patented methods of static and dynamic analysis.
- Prioritize and alert. vFunction incorporates a prioritized task list into every sprint to fix key technical debt issues, based on your unique business goals.
- Any architecture. The platform relies on OpenTelemetry to support a wide spectrum of programming languages in the distributed world, and Java and .NET for monolithic architectures, so you can use it for a variety of use cases, from monoliths to distributed microservices, refining microservices, and considering modular monoliths.
Organizations face immense pressure to deliver high-quality software rapidly, stay competitive, and pivot quickly in response to market demands. The rapid accumulation of technical debt exacerbates these challenges, hampering engineering velocity, limiting application scalability, and impacting resiliency. This often results in increased risks of outages, delayed projects, and missed opportunities.
Ready to put the freeze on software complexity and mounting technical debt? Let us partner with you to unlock the full potential of your software architecture. Contact us today to learn how vFunction can be an indispensable asset in transforming your software development practices.
Gartner, Inc. Cool Vendors in AI-Augmented Development and Testing for Software Engineering. Tigran Egiazarov, Philip Walsh, etl. 8 August 2024.
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