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Platform Engineering for Architects
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Platform Engineering for Architects

by Max Körbächer, Andreas Grabner, Hilliary Lipsig
October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
11h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Choosing Technical Debt to Unbreak Platforms

What is technical debt and how does it unbreak a platform? Technical debt is the ongoing cost of maintenance for a piece of software. This is the literal money that’s spent on the runtime environment, the time spent operating and updating it, and customer satisfaction. Just like monetary debt, technical debt can pile up. As the amount snowballs, the team can’t incur new debt or deliver new features as all their working hours are spent on mitigating the current issues.

Indicators that a team is inundated with technical debt are easy to spot: are your teams attempting to maintain extremely outdated software? Do you have systems that are operationally fragile and/or prone to crashing? Do you use unnecessarily ...

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