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KISS vs DRY in Infrastructure as Code: Why Simple Often Beats Clever
The Scale Gap Problem Every Infrastructure as Code tutorial starts the same way: provision...
Engineering DebtDrone: Building a High-Performance AST-Based Static Analyzer in Go
The Limitations of Lexical Analysis In the world of static analysis, there is a distinct...
How to Standardize Code Quality Across Different Developers and Teams
Introduction As teams scale and projects grow, maintaining consistent code quality becomes...
Integration Debt is Not Technical Debt: A 5-Pillar Framework to Quantify Architectural Risk
For decades, I’ve watched enterprises meticulously manage the debt inside their...
The React Native Upgrade Decision Framework: Predicting 10-38x Cost Multipliers
A pattern-based risk assessment for technical leaders. Predict costs before approving budget. Based on 12 enterprise migrations.
The Elevation Thesis
The smartphone in your pocket contains more computing power than the Apollo 11 mission computers. Yet...
The Joy of Negative Code Lines
There is a common bias in our industry: the instinct to add. As developers, when we face...
Inherited Technical Debt: How I Tackled a God Object in Legacy Code
A God Class is a class that knows too much or does too much. It is an anti pattern where the...
5 Real-World Technical Debt Examples (And Why AI is the Newest One)
Key Takeaways Debt is Borrowed Time: Technical debt isn't just "bad code"—it's a loan...
AI Writes Code 50% Faster. You Understand It 0% Better. It’s Called Comprehension Debt.
Cover Image Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash The invisible cost that metrics don’t...
Architectural Drift: The Reason For JavaScript/Typescript Codebases To Break Down Over Time
TL;DR: Drifting occurs in every codebase. Codebases do not break down due to a specific problem;...
Managing Comprehension Debt: How to Stop Shipping AI Code You Don't Understand
Cover Image Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash A scoring system and team practices that...
Why Data Teams Still “Guess” Join Keys in 2026
On paper, joining tables should be trivial. You look at the schema. You find the foreign key. You...
How to Reduce Technical Debt in the Power Platform
Technical debt refers to the future cost—measured in terms of time, money, effort, or opportunity—of...
Shades of Technical Debt
TLDR; Do you recognize yourself in the picture above? Or perhaps it's something new to...
CI/CD2 & Continues Debment: How to deal with technical debt
CI/CD2 & Continues Debment: How to deal with technical debt Originally written at...
TECHNICAL DEBT EMERGENCY: Can You Get the Suits to PAY UP?
Technical debt is a silent killer of software development projects, causing delays, bugs, and...
Technical Debt: The Hidden Cost Of Shipping Fast And Thinking Later
Ever shipped a tiny change and somehow broken six unrelated features you didn’t even touch? That,...
Technical Debt in the AI Era: When Your Assistant Becomes Your Liability
Master the hidden costs of AI-generated code. Complete framework for identifying, measuring, and systematically reducing AI technical debt before it paralyzes your team.
How to Convert Technical Debt into Business Value
Every software engineer has been there. You open a codebase and find a tangle of quick fixes and...
How Do You Actually Deal With Legacy Code at Work? I’m Curious.
I've been diving into the world of software maintenance lately, especially the reality of dealing...
You Can’t Measure ROI if You’re Drowning in Technical Debt
We’ve all been there. You ship something fast. It works. Everyone’s happy. Then six months later,...
AI Is Writing the Code—So Why Are We Still Debugging Everything by Hand?
AI was supposed to make development easier. But all it really did was make things faster—which, if...
What is technical debt and how to deal with it?
Also known as technical debt, it’s a concept in software development that represents the hidden cost...
Day 1 — Accepting the Impossible Sprint
Day one of the sprint. Two tasks assigned. Both impossible to complete within the sprint...
Essential Resources for Software Technical Debt Management
Is your software project feeling heavy, bogged down by unseen forces? That drag is often technical...
Top 18 Resources for Conquering Software Technical Debt
Is your software project feeling heavy, bogged down by unseen forces? That drag is often technical...
15+ Essential Resources for Tackling Technical Debt in Software Engineering
Technical debt. Just the phrase can send shivers down a developer's spine. It's the silent killer of...
When “Quick Fixes” Become Long-Term Pain
We’ve all been there. A tight deadline. A bug that’s blocking a demo. A client breathing down your...
Managing Technical Debt Like a Pro in 2025
Learn how to manage technical debt effectively in 2025 with smart strategies, developer-focused insights, and real-world practices to keep your applications scalable and maintainable.