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I hate this term "technical debt." I understand where it is coming from but it sounds like made up fairy dust and can be a little hard to take seriously.
by dinkumthinkum 13y ago
I hate this term "technical debt." I understand where it is coming from but it sounds like made up fairy dust and can be a little hard to take seriously.
- mabbo 13y agoIt's a good enough analogy to what the problem is. You are buying a solution today at the cost of continued payments when you try to make solutions tomorrow. Is it always bad? Hell no. When you need something right now, then you take a loan from the ol' technical debt bank. You get your product today instead of in a week. That can make or break a product. But failure to acknowledge what it is, debt which you pay interest on in terms of time and effort, is a recipe for doom.
- dasil003 13y agoSadly I think the term has been diluted a bit through overuse. I even hold myself to blame in sometimes referring to things as technical debt that are more accurately described as bit rot or just useful version upgrades (the ruby is particularly insidious about this).