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Implementing a plan to clean up technical debt

How to prepare for when debt comes knocking
November 30, 2020

Financial advisor, Susan Orman says, ‘Bad debt is sacrificing your future-day needs for your present-day desires’, and no one understands this quote better than a programmer.

As software development moves faster, the demand from users has become a stream of ideas that businesses try to leverage in order to gain a competitive edge. As a result, the turnaround time for features has decreased. Developers are having to make concessions on writing clean, manageable code in order to get features into the hands of users as quickly as possible.

As the apps – and the services that make them up – grow more complex, the skeletons in the closet become harder to ignore.

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