Everyone knows they shouldn't take shortcuts, especially in their work, and yet everyone does. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but when it comes to code development, though, it definitely does. As any experienced programmer knows, building your code the quick and dirty way soon leads to problems down the line. These issues might not be disastrous, but they incur a small penalty every time you want to develop your code further.
Faced with increasing budget pressure, some CIOs have turned to the concept of technical debt to quantify the cost of inefficient IT practices and help them build more compelling business cases for modernizing IT infrastructure and application platforms. While tallying various forms of technical debt may seem like an undertaking, CIOs can use code scanning tools, benchmarks, and estimates to make the process more manageable and yield useful results.
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’ve built up over time. It’s really impossible to avoid this phenomenon, but at some poin…
Technical Debt is loosely described as the legacy IT infrastructure that a CIO inherits or accumulates over time. Are you in Technical Debt?
It’s fair to say that every software development team will at some point incur …
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Technical debt is now a common term in the software development industry. Companies spend money assessing, controlling and “paying down” their technical debt in order to keep their products agile enough to compete in an environment where slow to...
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Most people associate “profiling” with negative behaviors, but categorizing users by background and interest isn’t a bad thing. Developers have long used user personas to design software that addresses each user’s need, so there’s no reason why profiling can’t be used to help a technical support team offer better service.
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Google releases a technical paper that explains how to automate the deployment of custom image builds for cloud applications.
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