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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Continuous tech-debt monitoring & governance Tech debt removal is typically reactive and ad-hoc exercise. AI can help run periodic scans, update debt scores, and feed insights into tech governance ...

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 ...

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Amazon unveils agentic AI to tackle massive legacy tech debt. Transform modernizes Windows stacks and slashes costly licensing. New AI agents migrate code at speeds humans can't match. Well... that ...

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 ...

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 ...