April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 18m
English
book
Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development
by Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya
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Preface
Philippe: I ran into technical debt long before I had a name for it. In 1980, I was working at Alcatel on some peripheral device, and the code had to fit in 8 kilobytes (kB) of ROM (Read-Only Memory). With the deadline to “burn” the ROMs approaching, we did a lot of damage to the code to make it fit, thinking, “Oh, for the next release we’ll have 16 kB available, we’ll make it right”… We did get 16 kB of ROM for the next release, but we never, ever fixed all the abominable things we had to do to the source code because the deadline for the next product was, again, too close. New programmers coming on board would say, “Wow, this is ugly, brain-damaged, awful. How did you end up writing such bad code?” Colleagues would reply, “Oh, yes, ...
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