technical debt Archives

Dockerfile Practices are a DevOps Tax Before They are a Security Concern

Learn how poor Dockerfile discipline creates silent technical debt and how tools like DockSec use AI and static analysis to optimize build times, reduce image sizes, and standardize DevOps workflows ...

Saqib Jan | April 22, 2026 | build reproducibility, CI/CD efficiency, container security, devops best practices, Docker optimization, DockSec, Hadolint, layer caching, multi-stage builds, technical debt

Scheduled Maintenance? That’s Another Way of Saying Technical Debt

No truly modern, cloud-native application should require downtime to perform a product upgrade or other routine maintenance ...

Lee Atchison | October 3, 2023 | cloud native, cloud-native applications, downtime, modernization, technical debt

Technical Debt Isn’t All Bad

'Good' technical debt lets developers release a product sooner, collect user feedback and iterate for improvements ...

Lee Atchison | August 22, 2023 | application development, cloud native, technical debt

Cloud-Native Complexity and its Role in Technical Debt

One common source of excess unmanaged technical debt is application complexity. Here's how to make it manageable ...

Lee Atchison | July 11, 2023 | application development, cloud native, complexity, software development, technical debt

Managing Technical Debt in a Cloud-Native Application

Technical debt is the cost of doing additional work caused by choosing an easy, limited or sub-optimal solution now rather than using a better approach that would take longer or cost more ...

Lee Atchison | May 2, 2023 | application development, cloud-native applications, legacy technology, modernization, technical debt