category: technical debt

Announcing MenderCon 2020

APR 20, 2020 Written by M. Scott Ford

At MenderCon, we want to celebrate the software maintainers of the world and create a community where we can all learn from each other. Building on the organic community that's emerged from the podcast Legacy Code Rocks! this virtual event is a chance for menders all over the world to come together and talk about what makes improving software interesting and fun.

Technical Debt Isn't Just Technical

FEB 12, 2020 Written by Andrea Goulet

As a company that specializes in working with legacy code, we’ve run into our fair share of technical debt over the years. Many teams have deferred their maintenance for so long that any tiny change to the code takes forever to get out the door. But there are other things that contribute to technical debt that you won’t find in the codebase.