this was an interesting read, but i have an similar, but slightly different observation. google and facebook also have mountains of technical debt and they don

this was an interesting read, but i have an similar, but slightly different observation. google and facebook also have mountains of technical debt and they don't necessarily fix it. in particular some google projects i have had to build have had the absolute worst kinds of dependencies and requirements to build - from what i've heard from the inside they don't suffer so much from this because they build elaborate systems to deal with it... that is not paying back technical debt, it is creating the risk of more in the future to avoid having to pay it at all. aside from google some facebook projects i've seen also contain the very worst of practices of the kind that invariably result in technical debt and difficult maintenance work... but i know nothing about what they do maybe it has the same effect, and maybe that is part of the trick, that its more productive to live with technical debt if you do it right than it is to pay it back