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Sundial ,

What’s tech debt?

yogthos OP ,
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When a project is developed for a while, a lot of initial design decisions can become invalidated as business needs evolve. New features have to be added, and in many cases they go against original assumptions about how the project would be used. At that point you have to start making hacks and kludging new features in. This creates a lot of special cases and surprising behaviors making overall project brittle and hard to maintain. That’s what’s known as tech debt.

In an ideal world you would have time to do proper redesign to accommodate new features, clean up problems as you go, and so on. However, in reality there’s usually just not enough time to do any of that so people just pile on features at the cost of overall development becoming harder and more error prone. This is a great discussion on the subject incidentally medium.com/…/the-generation-ship-model-of-softwar…

bloubz ,

It also covers shortcuts you take to go faster while acknowledging it’s not the correct way and you’ll have to pay that debt later on. Like if you took a loan

ArmoredThirteen ,

“pay that debt later on”, nothings more permanent than temporary. In my experience things are more likely to default than get paid lol

fubarx ,

A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.

Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.

Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life’s too short. Walked away.

OsrsNeedsF2P ,

…

What?

davel ,
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I blame every gray hair on Jenkins Pipeline’s so-called DSL, a.k.a. Groovy.
You’d have to pay me a seven-figure salary to work with that again.

yogthos OP ,
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yup, that thing’s a nightmare alright

AlecSadler ,

2 years? More like 3-6 months.

Cysioland ,
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Nah, our tech stack is a loan shark who’ll come collect technical debt in a month’s time

CrayonMaster , (edited )

OK but I’m genuinely terrified by how common this is at my company, and its notably better at retention then the industry norm.

Screw Dead Internet Theory, this is my conspiracy: Crowdstrike style incidents are going to get more and more common as techdebt keeps growing.

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