Tag: technical debt

Technical Debt: Don’t Buy Buzzwords
Buying into the 'next big new shiny thing' only increases your technical debt. Don MacVittie advises only buying what's necessary ...

AI: A Game-Changer for SRE Work-Sharing and Technical Debt
AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the SRE work-sharing and technical debt pillar of DevOps practice ...

Technical Debt? No Sweat!
As a product manager, I dread the moment a developer says, “Wait a minute; I need to refactor ...” (I wish it was just a minute). Something that should take two days ...

Technical Debt is Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It
Eventually, your organization will accumulate technical debt. It doesn't matter what programming language, software stack, computing style, host, or slick hybrid mix you use. It doesn't matter if you're using a waterfall ...

Majority of Organizations Report Benefits From Low-Code Platforms
Some IT departments are feeling the strain amid recent economic downturns. 2023 has already seen a disproportionately high degree of layoffs in the tech sector. As a result, there aren't always enough ...

Survey Surfaces Application Modernization Challenges
A survey of senior IT leaders suggested the level of confidence in application modernization projects that many organizations initially had is now starting to wane. The survey polled 200 senior IT leaders ...

Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation
A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage. The survey of 400 IT leaders at ...

FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad ...

Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back
Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci ...

Report: Impact of Bad Software on US Economy Reaches $2.41 Trillion
A report published this week by Synopsys in collaboration with the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimated that software quality issues might adversely impact the U.S. economy to the tune ...

Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem ...

Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization
A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with ...