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That's not debt. That's an asset. It's inventory. It has a maintenance cost in the sense that a truck has a cost of upkeep to keep it on the road. Technical de
by fnord123 7y ago
That's not debt. That's an asset. It's inventory. It has a maintenance cost in the sense that a truck has a cost of upkeep to keep it on the road.
Technical debt is configuration and plugins. You are able to deliver something now with the benefit of changing behaviour later but at the cost of having an enormously increased test surface and invasion into your type system with possibly hostile parameters.
- emmelaich 7y agoI would say debt == investment. You're betting that the maintenance foregone in the present is paid back with interest in the future. This "pay back" could be the success of the company which allows you to pay for more developers and tools. Is it worth it? Time will tell.