Every CEO knows the feeling of promised features taking months longer than expected, simple changes breaking unrelated systems, and top engineers fighting fires more than they build the future.

Technical debt can limit the returns small businesses can garner from investments in artificial intelligence while reducing ...

Technical debt is a hidden weight that can quietly undermine the long-term stability of both products and platforms. Yet addressing it often feels at odds with the pressure to keep building and ...

Technical debt has become a concern for businesses of all sizes across their data centers and network and security infrastructure. Although it might be unavoidable, there are ways to lighten the ...

This Halloween, while ghosts and zombies are knocking on doors across the world asking for candy and treats, a very real monster is knocking on the doors of organizations of all sizes: tech debt. And ...

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Ask any development team about technical debt and you're likely to get a nod of recognition--followed by a shrug. It's a familiar term, but too often treated as a theoretical concept rather than a ...

Technical debt is a concept most IT professionals are familiar with, but too often it is discussed primarily in terms of application code. Yet, databases are equally susceptible to technical debt, and ...

The BFSI sector faces mounting challenges from accumulated technical debt, legacy systems, and complex architectures that hinder agility and innovation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI ...

There’s a silent strain on security in today’s enterprises, and it’s coming from an unexpected source: the technology stack. Technical debt is a $2.41 trillion problem in the United States. No wonder, ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Technical debt is the accumulation of future costs that ...