Venetian traders figured out 800 years ago something that would benefit programmers to learn as well: debt is just the mirror image of credit. Everything has a trade-off, there is no free lunch, thermodynamics and whatnot. Every asset has to be maintained.
Tech debt is not something to be minimized, it's something to be made explicit and managed. The real trick is building machinery that is well documented and easy to maintain.
Tech debt is not something to be minimized, it's something to be made explicit and managed. The real trick is building machinery that is well documented and easy to maintain.