AI coding tools are reshaping how developers tackle tech debt. But human judgment is still essential to understanding crucial context. IT leaders know they must eventually deal with technical debt, but because addressing it doesn’t always directly result in increased revenue or new capabilities, it can be difficult to get business management to take it seriously. But technical debt can undercut an organization’s ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development...

Understanding the differences between data mesh, data fabric, and data virtualization can help organizations turn scattered data into a strategic advantage. Organizations are getting serious about extracting value from the data they produce and collect, even when that data is spread out across multiple clouds, data centers, and silos. Three terms you might hear when learning techniques for this are data mesh, data fabric, and data virtualization. The three concepts might even seem to overlap...

A zero trust architecture locks down data and contains damages from breaches by taking a ‘never trust, always verify’ approach. What is zero trust? Zero trust is a cybersecurity model or strategy in which no person or computing entity is considered inherently trustworthy, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the organization’s network. It’s distinct from a more traditional way of thinking about computer networks that considers everything inside some defined boundary — everyone on...