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Finding and Fixing Five Kinds of Architectural Technical Debt

DZone

In the most public situations, the applications tip over completely — like we’ve seen most recently at Southwest Airlines, Twitter, FAA, and others which never get publicized — but you know who you are. Technical debt takes on various forms from source code smells to security risks to the more serious issue of architectural technical debt.

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How to Engineer Your Technical Debt Response

DZone

The Southwest Airlines fiasco from December 2022 and the FAA Notam database fiasco from January 2023 had one thing in common: their respective root causes were mired in technical debt. At its most basic, technical debt represents some kind of technology mess that someone has to clean up.

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Experiencing Perform: The diary of a developer advocate

Dynatrace

Figure 1: The team behind “Building custom apps with AppEngine” HOT class: Building apps with Dynatrace AppEngine As this class name implies, we guided attendees through the journey of building a Dynatrace app with a code-along example app.

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Business observability and the travel and hospitality industry: a key to successful recovery

Dynatrace

The airline : My preferences for a recent long-haul flight included price and the availability of aisle seats. I could upgrade the vehicle in the app, or simply get in the car and use the QR code to exit the garage. Based on my experience, here are my guesses: The airline IT team does not monitor user journeys. BizOps maturity.

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Business observability and the travel and hospitality industry: a key to successful recovery

Dynatrace

The airline : My preferences for a recent long-haul flight included price and the availability of aisle seats. I could upgrade the vehicle in the app, or simply get in the car and use the QR code to exit the garage. Based on my experience, here are my guesses: The airline IT team does not monitor user journeys. BizOps maturity.

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IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A The AppEngine uses an easy, low-code approach to unlock the wealth of insights available in modern cloud ecosystems, including revealing where organizations consume their energy. ”As

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What they don't tell you about migrating a message-based system to the cloud

Particular Software

Now go rewrite all your code… we’ll wait…are you done yet? So we’re going to explore this scenario with a small, fictitious airline, called (and really, what else would we call it) ParticulAir. ? These upgrades are handled asynchronously, as the airline wants to prioritize upgrades for its most valuable frequent flyers over others.

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