On Technical Debt, Margin Calls, and Ponzi Schemes

<p>Ward Cunningham coined the term &ldquo;technical debt&rdquo; 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&nbsp;thirty years ago.</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><a href="https://medium.com/@dnastacio/technical-debt-dad103c29090"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>