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Technical Debt Articles

Written by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, product management, and development partner.

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  1. What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

    Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.

    Jeanine Soterwood
    November 21, 2022
    • Good Code
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    • Rails
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  2. Make small, data-driven performance improvements

    Performance issues are a form of technical debt, and we must pay them off by making informed incremental improvements.

    Wil Hall
    October 15, 2020
    • Performance
    • Analytics
    • Technical Debt
  3. Selling Technical Debt to the Business

    Strategies for getting the budget needed to tackle technical debt.

    Rick Gorman
    July 16, 2020
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    • Sales
  4. Addressing Technical Debt

    The financial metaphor is often thrown around engineering departments, but how do you actually deal with it?

    Joël Quenneville
    November 4, 2019
    • Web
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  5. Velocity vs. Quality - How do developers and founders meet in the middle?

    Finding the right balance between writing quality software and shipping features rapidly.

    Tom Wey
    August 19, 2019
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    Get the most velocity from your product team as it transitions from prototyping and validation to growth.

    Kane Baccigalupi
    May 15, 2019
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