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  "path": "/survey-java-developers-wrestling-with-massive-amounts-of-technical-debt/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-10T14:00:55.000Z",
  "site": "https://devops.com",
  "tags": [
    "Blogs",
    "Business of DevOps",
    "Features",
    "News",
    "Social - Facebook",
    "Social - LinkedIn",
    "Social - X",
    "AI coding tools",
    "AI functionality",
    "artificial intelligence",
    "cloud computing costs",
    "Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE)",
    "cost-driven migration",
    "dead code",
    "developer productivity",
    "Java applications",
    "Java developers",
    "Java versions",
    "Java Virtual Machine (JVM)",
    "language model integration.",
    "large data access",
    "long-term support",
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  "textContent": "A global survey of 2,039 Java developers published today finds 63% reporting that dead and unused code adversely affects their team’s productivity, with 22% describing the impact of that technical debt as being severe. Conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Azul, a provider of a distribution of OpenJDK, the survey also finds that more […]",
  "title": "Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt"
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