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People will argue you should spend time on something else once you put bandaid on a wooden leg. You should do proper risk assessment, such bug may be leveraged
by cryptonym 2y ago
People will argue you should spend time on something else once you put bandaid on a wooden leg.
You should do proper risk assessment, such bug may be leveraged by an attacker, that may actually be a symptom of a running attack. That may also lead to data corruption or exposure. That may mean some part of the system are poorly optimised and over-consuming resources, maybe impacting user-experience. With a dirty workaround, your technical debt increases, expect more and more random issues that requires aggressive "self-healing".
- kenhwang 2y agoIt's just yet another piece of debt that gets prioritized against other pieces of debt. As long as the cost of this debt is purely fiscal, it's easy enough to position in the debt backlog. Maybe a future piece of debt will increase the cost of this. Maybe paying off another piece of debt will also pay off some of this. The tech debt payoff prioritization process will get to it when it gets to it.
- cryptonym 2y agoWithout proper risk assessment, that's poor management and a recipe for disaster. Without that assessment, you don't know the "cost", if that can even be measured. Of course one can still run a business without doing such risk assessment and poorly managing technical debt, just be prepared for higher disaster chances.