Why Every Startup Should Make Technical Debt a Top Priority
What if I told you that technical debt could turn out to be the grim reaper itself, jeopardizing all of your hard-earned growth and success?
What if I told you that technical debt could turn out to be the grim reaper itself, jeopardizing all of your hard-earned growth and success?
The stars have aligned, and you’ve gotten the go-ahead to significantly overhaul some software. Figuring out if you should blow away the existing code and start from scratch, or if you should just rewrite parts of it instead, can sometimes be a challenging and difficult decision.
The next time you find yourself looking for an issue in code, which type of searcher will you be?
Once upon a time, there was a small business looking for help to modernize their existing software...
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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.