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In our first installment, we defined technical debt, its continuously rising importance and why all should care about its mitigation within business. In our second installment, we learned how to share ...

Learn to identify and manage firmware technical debt before it quietly destroys your development velocity and code quality.

Financial services IT teams familiar with technical debt will understand why security debt is an equally urgent concern in ...

Enterprises are racing to innovate and remain competitive as they face increasing disruption. Across industries, organizations are reinventing themselves through software investments to scale, remain ...

The Department of Defense needs to require the shutdown of applications that can’t be updated in any formal guidance it issues on reducing technical debt to mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Aging hardware, outdated software and legacy infrastructure put undue stress on IT teams, but technical debt doesn’t have to last forever. Though the buzz phrase “technical debt” might be new to some, ...

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Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

The United States has long struggled with managing its financial debt—borrowing beyond its means, deferring payments and accumulating obligations that eventually come due. The same holds true for ...