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tomblomfield on Jan 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

It's not "free", it's just much harder to measure.

The cost is reduced development velocity, and perhaps reduced systems stability.

lostcolony on Jan 20, 2017 [–]

Which developers get blamed for, even though it was a managerial decision to take on the debt.

Financial debt has clear cost; technical debt doesn't. So it seems 'free' to the non-technical.

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