On average, about a quarter of all IT budgets are allocated to handling technical debt each year. And this figure is set to rise, as 68% of organizations say their technical debt will increase in 2022. As digital acceleration continues to drive more IT investment across divisions, the technical burden almost seems like an inevitable […]
Developer Challenges in Commercial Banking
Much like many other business sectors, the banking industry has had to accelerate their digital transformation efforts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s retail banking industry is a far cry from where it was even just five years ago. Consumers no longer have to physically appear in their bank to process payments or […]
The Disposable Development Environment
Wait! Just wait a dadgummed minute! It takes days to build a development environment, and now I am supposed to read an article on a disposable development environment? Yes. It seems like it took an entire sprint to upgrade PHP! Now I am supposed to let them build something so they can trash it? Yes […]
Iterative Indicators: Measuring DevOps ROI
It’s well-established that application of ROI measurements to IT investment remains an imperfect science, and the same goes for ongoing adoption of DevOps methodologies. The fuzzy math of vendor-driven ROI calculators aside, even the most respected industry watchers have long struggled to create concrete parameters for assessment of technology spending. This, in large part, has […]
DevOps and continuous innovation accelerate the evolution of technology
DevOps tools and principles have dramatically increased the pace of innovation and enabled the organizations that have embraced them and used them most effectively to achieve a major strategic advantage over competitors. The more the world runs and relies on software, the more DevOps can be the engine to automate and facilitate change. There was […]