Joy Ebertz, Principal Engineer at Imprint, presented at QCon London 2026 a groundbreaking framework for prioritizing ...

As companies continue to rely on outdated software and legacy systems, many dating back to the 1980s, they face mounting challenges. Rising maintenance costs, increasing complexity and significant ...

Technical debt is like cholesterol: The more it accumulates, the more it impedes the flow of value. Neglect this buildup, and a corporate cardiac arrest is inevitable. While “technical debt” is a term ...

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 ...

Many IT execs are concerned AI is creating more tech debt, not less. AI may be running on debt-laden platforms. Longer-term thinking is needed for software. Tech debt has long been an ever-expanding ...

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 ...

From regional banks to global investment firms, financial institutions carry significant levels of technical debt, especially in areas such as core banking systems, payments infrastructure and ...

Technologists call this invisible liability technical debt. Software engineer Ward Cunningham introduced the metaphor to describe the future cost created when teams choose a faster or easier solution ...

Just as you wouldn’t build a trading strategy without a risk framework, you shouldn’t scale an organization without a ...

As the Trump administration pushes agencies to break down data silos, the IT officials leading the charge are grappling with a problem that has occasionally complicated matters: figuring out how to ...