As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company’s ability to modernize, the first step is simply understanding the state of your architecture. SAP announ
Companies mired in tech debt, with older, brittle systems, could face big issues when game changing technologies come along.
Here's a detailed checklist C-level executives and managers can use to help VCs determine if your "codebase is safe enough for investment."
The themes of codebase health that great investors care about are also strategic decisions that help create code to support a great business.
It's not just giants like Amadeus that face tech debt. Even much smaller companies have to deal with technical debt eventually and come to terms with massive technology changes.
Favoring a short-term plan to get a faster go-to-market option is not always bad, provided the business has a backup plan to deliver well-designed code that would simplify future iterations.
Early-stage entrepreneurs eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. As a result, technical debt can accumulate.
Without a good technical foundation, you may end up accumulating a lot of technical debt.
The systemic issues became apparent the way they often do -- when customers began complaining.
Picture yourself in the role of CIO at Roblox in 2017. At that point, the gaming platform and publishing system that launched in 2005 was growing fast, but its underlying technology was aging, consist
When it comes to choosing a tech stack, the decisions you make today could have a cascading impact for years.
Every couple of months, I talk to an entrepreneur who is interested in building a marketplace for buying and selling app businesses (i.e. the actual IP and ownership of an app or other piece of softwa
As every software company knows, over time as code ages and workarounds build on work-arounds, the code base becomes bloated. It becomes ever more difficult to get around the technical debt that you&#
Not all debt is bad debt. It’s conventional wisdom in the world of finance that the strategic use of debt builds better companies. The same is true for software. Companies that are strategic in thei
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