On Technical Debt, Margin Calls, and Ponzi Schemes
<p>Ward Cunningham coined the term “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">technical debt</a>” to describe a particular category of project issues. Those issues required refactoring to make it easier to work with the codebase but did not affect the final product delivered to the customer.</p>
<p>That was <a href="https://c2.com/doc/oopsla92.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">thirty years ago</a>.</p>
<p>It was a period populated with client-server architectures, long before Clouds and the Internet became integral parts of system runtimes.</p>
<p>Fast-forward to modern cloud-based architectures and a poorly organized interface is no longer a bucket of bytes inside an object file; it is a web of calls among micro-services.</p>
<p>read more - https://medium.com/@dnastacio/technical-debt-dad103c29090</p>