technical debt

Measuring and Increasing Code Quality
At some point in a CTO’s career questions will be raised about “code quality” under their watch. Engineering teams will typically associate code quality with bugs and feature release velocity, while Product ...
Wicked Good Development Episode 23: Demystifying Tech Debt
Wicked Good Development is dedicated to the future of open source. This space is to learn about the latest in the developer community and talk shop with open source software innovators and ...
How You Can Manage and Eliminate Technical Debt
What do out-of-date third party components, a product backlog, and a rushed software launch all have in common? ...

Vulnerability Disclosures Rise to Meet Federal Requirements
For all its other security milestones, 2021 was the year that vulnerability disclosures began to get their due, taking on greater importance across all sectors, but particularly in government where valid submissions ...

Your Security Debt is Due. Here’s How to Pay it Off
An acceleration in major supply chain attacks, from SolarWinds to the Microsoft Exchange Server attack to the ransomware spread through Kaseya, should have every developer looking in the mirror and doing some ...

The True Danger To North America: Unmanaged & Embedded Infrastructural Technical Debt
via Alexis C. Madrigal - writing for The Atlantic - comes this prescient piece, targeting technical debt within the United States's physical infrastructure. Quite likely, the single , most dangerous and looming ...

QOTD Grady Booch
Grady Booch on Technical Debt "The concept of technical debt is central to understanding the forces that weigh upon systems, for it often explains where, how, and why a system is stressed ...