Technical Solvency – Not all companies pay the same price for technical debt

We have already written previously on technical debt: when the legacy systems of a company are not properly management, they create a serious impact on the company's ability to realize new solutions and innovate. But you can also use technical debt to realize business opportunities; the so called strategic debt. Of course this strategic debt …

A pragmatic checklist for joining the API economy

In one of our previous posts we’ve already talked about the API Economy, in this post we’re taking it one step further: we’ll investigate what it takes to become a participant in the API economy. This participant can range from API consumer, producer or platform. An organization can of course take up multiple roles. Before …

Containing legacy systems and building a digital platform

In previous blog posts we have already talked about technical debt and concepts such as accidental debt and system rot. A lot of companies are building new systems on top of their existing systems without careful considerations and architectural design. This leads to situations were old and new systems are completely entangled into each other …

Technical Debt: The prime killer for Innovation

During my entire career, I’ve been (near) continuously confronted by the negative effects of stockpiled technical debt. No matter what company I was working for or what system I was working on: Consistently they were scarred by years of accumulated debt. To help companies overcome their debt we’ve decided to start a series of blog …

Open Source Software as the prime enabler for innovative architectures

There was a moment in time (not so very long ago) when the most innovative IT software could only be provided by a handful of large incumbent tech companies. Either because they had developed that piece of software themselves or acquired the company that did. But things have changed, dramatically, and it’s all due to …