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Earned Complexity: A Disciplined, Evidence-Based Framework
Abstract Modern software‑engineering organizations increasingly struggle not because of insufficient technical skill or innovation, but because of a systemic ov...
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How to structure technical planning for engineering
The Hidden Cost of Reactive Engineering In a fast‑growing company, the default state of engineering is reactive. The product roadmap is packed, deadlines are t...
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Why TODOs rot — and how I built a tool to make them expire
!Cover image for Why TODOs rot — and how I built a tool to make them expirehttps://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,form...
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Do You Smell That? Hidden Technical Debt in AI Development
Why speed without standards creates fragile AI products The post Do You Smell That? Hidden Technical Debt in AI Development appeared first on Towards Data Scien...
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Technical Debt is Not a Metaphor. It's Why Your Migration Failed.
I recently went through Dave Farley’s guide on Managing Technical Debt. It’s a mandatory read because it treats debt strictly as a business risk, not just a dev...
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I Debug Code Like I Debug Life (Spoiler: Both Throw Exceptions)
Being a software developer is a lot like being human I write code for a living. One thing I love about code: - If it doesn’t like you, it tells you immediately...
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The Responsibility Trap: Why 'Caring' is the Newest Technical Debt
We’ve all seen the articles. For the last few years, the tech world has been flooded with the same message: software is not neutral, your code has a carbon foot...
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We’ve been shipping 'slop' for 20 years. We just used to call it an MVP.
We’ve Been Shipping “Slop” for 20 Years. We Just Used to Call It an MVP !Cover image for “We’ve been shipping “slop” for 20 years. We just used to call it an M...
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Tools Don’t Fix Broken Systems — Design Does
Developers understand this instinctively: you can’t fix a bad architecture by adding more libraries. Yet businesses do this all the time. When operations feel s...
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Feature Toggles Without Tech Debt, Strategies for Teams to Avoid Hidden Pitfalls
Feature Toggles: Benefits, Pitfalls, and a Practical Approach Feature toggles can feel like magic when you’re rolling out a risky new API endpoint, testing a r...
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Your Codebase Needs OSHA
The Hidden Cost of a Messy Codebase I’ve never been able to function well in a messy space. It’s not about neatness—it’s something deeper. When things are scat...
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Refactoring – Not on the backlog (2014)
Article URL: https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/refactoring-not-on-the-backlog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503439 Points: 15 Comme...