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Framework Debt Drains 26% of IT Budgets; Hexagonal Architecture Offers Cure
A 2024 vFunction survey found over 50% of companies lose more than a quarter of their IT budget to technical debt. The root cause is architectural erosion from framework shortcuts and tutorial culture. Hexagonal Isolation, using ports and adapters, decouples core business logic from external dependencies to prevent this rot.
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The article's $26 billion figure is attention-grabbing, but the real insight is that framework-induced debt is a structural problem, not a coding one—and hexagonal architecture is a proven, if underused, fix.
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