What's the best way to approach technical debt?
Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/10/24/how-to-dominate-technical-debt-and-build-better-code/
#technicaldebt
Attrition forced technical solvency
We talk quite a bit at work about technical debt. We typically think about all the things we have to keep updated and how so much of our time gets sucked into them.
The real problems are the unknown things lurking where one person knows how they work that are fragile and good enough. Until they aren’t. These ticking timebombs lie in wait. That one person keeps them running. They leave. Death, retirement, or even changing jobs means that one person who keeps an important thing going isn’t there anymore. What happens when it breaks? No one knows how to fix it. There’s a period of frustration and anger because it’s broken with no solution.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.comWe see fairly often at the institutions using our services. The one person who knew the authentication system left and it has coasted on fumes for months to years. They keep meaning to upgrade it, but no one has figured it out the passwords to get into the system. (The penetration test found they were the defaults.) The payment gateway critical to accepting funds was managed by that one person who retired years ago. A consultant setup the automation system last year, but no one really knows how it works. It’s just running along doing it’s job until someone complained about all this bad data, only they can’t stop the bad data because no one can update the workflows.
What’s more interesting to me is these things force them or us to address the issue. Custom fragile processes no one, including us or vendors, understand gets replaced with standard integrations. The business process has to adapt to using it the correct way, but that’s the trade off for doing it the right way. That’s hard work to implement. That’s disruptive. The business has to suffer for a while.
Why can’t we do it the right way from the beginning? The business drives innovation. The business wants something tailored to how they want to work and IT helps them get it that way. The business thinks their way is a competitive advantage. The business rewards IT for being helpful. And so IT delivers these custom solutions that give the business ever more fragile solutions. The rewards aren’t more staff to support all the stuff, not that anyone really knows how much support really is needed.
#businessProcesses #technicalDebt #theBusiness #turnover #upgrades
How revenue decisions shape #technicaldebt
https://www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/how-revenue-decisions-shape-technical-debt
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#TechnicalDebt #StartupFailure #Coding #TechDebt #Startups #NợKỹThuật #KhởiNghiệp #ThấtBạiStartup #KỹThuật
🚨 ALERT: Breaking news from 2025! Turns out all that "technical debt" was actually just people not knowing how to press CTRL+C and CTRL+V properly! 🤦♂️ Who knew "copy-paste" was a revolutionary way to solve cross-platform issues? Next up: how to reboot your computer by turning it off and on again. 💡
https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html #technicaldebt #copyandpaste #humor #technews #troubleshooting #HackerNews #ngated
Cảnh báo nợ kỹ thuật: Lưu trữ log kiểm toán (audit logs) trong DB chính là "quả bom hẹn giờ" cho SaaS của bạn.
1. Hiệu năng: Log kiểm toán sinh ra nhiều, làm DB quá tải, chậm chạp.
2. Tuân thủ: Auditor có thể nghi ngờ tính toàn vẹn khi log nằm chung DB với dữ liệu người dùng.
Giải pháp: Tách biệt, lưu log kiểm toán vào hệ thống lưu trữ lạnh (cold storage), bất biến.
#SaaS #AuditLogs #TechnicalDebt #Database #Performance #Compliance #NợKỹThuật #NhậtKýKiểmToán #BảoMật #LưuTrữ
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“Technical Debt Will Bite Us in the Ass”: How to Make Non-Technical Stakeholders Actually Care, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
The silent killer of high-performance teams is overburden (Muri). It’s the invisible pressure that slowly burns out your people and calcifies your architecture.
In the final part of my blog series on Lean Software Delivery, I look beyond the symptoms to expose the source and set out a practical sociotechnical plan to solve it.
Read the full conclusion here: https://matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2025/11/25/the-root-cause-of-overburden/
#CognitiveLoad #DevOps #DomainDrivenDesign #Lean #PlatformEngineering #TeamTopologies #TechnicalDebt
🏗️ Tried to turn a 500K-line monolith into a modular monolith.
Three compromises later, the code seeped back into legacy.
Lessons learned:
• Team agreement ≠ commitment
• No automated checks = architecture erosion
• Architects can't walk away
First attempt. Won't be the last.
https://victoronsoftware.com/posts/modular-monolith-attempt/
#SoftwareArchitecture #TechnicalDebt #LessonsLearned
⚠️ Avoiding Technical Debt
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Good Enough Is a Strategy, by @trevorlasn.bsky.social:
The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Going around to random GitHub repos and offering pull requests to add code comments that each consist of a random fragment of Moby Dick.
New Report: AI-generated code is often highly functional — but still “systematically lacking in architectural judgment.”
Ox Security identified 10 common architecture & security anti-patterns in code produced by LLMs - hidden risks that add Technical Debt.
📘 Read more: https://bit.ly/4o8Cpvg
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My Framework for Technical Debt
I've mentioned my approach to technical debt often, but I've never actually written it down. Here's the framework I use.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/11/my-framework-for-technical-debt.html
Some Software Bloat Is OK, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
https://waspdev.com/articles/2025-11-04/some-software-bloat-is-ok
Architectural Debt Is Not Just Technical Debt, by @maybefrederick.bsky.social:
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-10-31-architectural-debt-is-not-just-technical-debt/
On the topic of 'Bugs' in software
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Not all quality problems are equal!
A few helpful terms are needed to name and tame the complexity of product development. To name a few: #bug #defect #escapeddefect #technicaldebt
Hệ thống webhook của chúng tôi đang hoạt động nhờ băng dính và cầu nguyện. Khách hàng phụ thuộc vào webhook cho các quy trình quan trọng nhưng hệ thống của chúng tôi dễ xảy ra lỗi. #TechnicalDebt #NợKỹThuật #Webhook #HệThốngWebhook #SaaS #PhầnMềmĐámMây
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1os1mkp/our_webhook_system_is_held_together_with_duct/
Base dữ liệu 4 năm tích tụ rác thải, ngại dọn dẹp. Đăng ký trùng lặp, bản ghi mồ côi, dữ liệu thử nghiệm từ 2021 vẫn còn. Xóa có thể làm hỏng hệ thống, nhưng giữ lại làm chậm truy vấn và tăng chi phí. #DữLiệu #TechnicalDebt #SaaS #Databasẹ #RácThải #XoáDữLiệu #ChiPhí
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1orvysa/our_database_has_4_years_of_accumulated_garbage/
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