Why tech debt is no longer fit for purpose
It's time to refactor our language
‘Tech debt is an outdated concept’ went live on LeadDev yesterday.
This is my first-ever commissioned piece of writing. I discuss optionality as the natural and necessary replacement for the overused and overloaded term of technical debt.
The themes will be familiar to regular readers of the newsletter, but it’s the most in-depth and polished piece I’ve done so far (big credit belongs to Anastasija and the team over at LeadDev for the editorial support).
Read ‘Tech debt is an outdated concept’ here
It feels like the right moment to acknowledge that there are now over 300 of you here, and I’m grateful for every read, like, and reply I get to these emails. Thank you.
This is just the beginning.
For those expecting pt.2 of Engineering 2030, I’ve decided to extend the experiment by continually adding to and amending the existing article, rather than posting as a series. There have already been some new additions since yesterday; you can read them here:
