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I'm failing to see the point in calling a technical dept "good". As far as I can tell from the article, the author is measuring 2 possibilities of technical dep
by enginaar 7y ago
I'm failing to see the point in calling a technical dept "good". As far as I can tell from the article, the author is measuring 2 possibilities of technical dept and choosing the one that incurs the least dept. I can see how good a decision this is but I don't see how this makes the dept good.
- rockinghigh 7y agoIt’s tech debt, as in a liability that you will have to pay back on the future.
- kevsim 7y ago> I don't see how this makes the dept good Time to market, for one. If you get the feature out faster to your customer, eating some debt can be worthwhile. This article is merely providing a structured way to think about the debt you're taking on.
- weego 7y agoTechnical debt is a luxury companies with an excess of resources have. Startups without an excess of resources do not have technical debt in that, if you have no more runway and shutter thr business all you have is a bunch of code that didn't justify its own existence. By definition it is a positive situation to be in. So code that you can propose may be technical dept that make your Series A is good debt.