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by sosodev 1429 days ago
I don't think there's a shortage of people who can architect reliable services. I think companies simply put reliability on the back burner because it rarely bites them. It's the same reason technical debt is so rarely paid off.
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> technical debt is so rarely paid off.

It's not debt if you don't have to pay for it -- and if the ongoing costs of whatever it is are relatively insignificant.

But technical debt bites you in every new feature by slowing new code addition.