Tag: technical debt
Survey Surfaces Application Modernization Challenges
Mike Vizard | | app dev, application modernization, legacy tech, software development, technical debtA 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!
Richi Jennings | | cryptography, database, devsecops, Don’t settle for what life gives you—make life better and build something, encryption, end to end, FAA, federal agencies, legacy, mainframe, NOTAM, privacy, risk, security, technical debt, The Long View, ThreemaIn 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
Bill Doerrfeld | | application architecture, continuous deployment, Life cycle management, technical debtIdeally, 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 ...
Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in ...
DevOps Institute Releases Upskilling IT 2022 Report
DevOps Institute, a professional member association working to advance the humans of DevOps, announced the release of its Upskilling IT 2022 report. In its fourth year, the Upskilling IT report highlights the ...
Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts ...
Survey Shows Increased Focus on Modernizing IT, Retiring Apps
A survey of 140 enterprise architects and IT leaders published today suggested that, while moving applications to the cloud remains a priority, more attention is being paid to reducing technical debt by ...
Sometimes, You Should Fix What Isn’t Broken
DevOps has been with us long enough now that there is a lot of legacy DevOps stuff running in all of the places I have eyes into. Ignoring items that are not ...
