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The Dirty Little Secret About Open-Sourcing Legacy Monoliths

How Pebble’s complete code release exposes the brutal realities of embedded system debt – and creates a blueprint for sustainable software resurrection.

#embedded-systems#monolith-decomposition#open-source...

agile

Extreme Agile: The Innovation Catalyst That’s Burning Down Your House

When rapid iteration kills documentation, testing, and system design, is extreme agile sustainable progress or professional malpractice?

#agile#engineering-practices#software-architecture...

organizational-design

Workflow Debt is Actually Worse Than Technical Debt

The devastating organizational cancer that silently kills product scalability, and why structural process decisions haunt companies longer than bad code.

#organizational-design#product-management#technical-debt...

over-engineering

The Architect’s Calculator: Debunking Multi-Cloud Mythology

Using Probability x Impact math to call out over-engineering excuses and justify architectural complexity

#over-engineering#risk-assessment#technical-debt

ai-generated-code

Comprehension Debt: The Architectural Time Bomb in Your AI-Generated Codebase

As LLMs spew unread code into production, teams face a new kind of technical debt where systems work but no human understands them.

#ai-generated-code#code-quality#LLM...

AI-coding

The Silent Code Rot: How AI Pair Programming Is Quietly Degrading Your Codebase

Widespread AI coding assistant adoption is creating subtle but dangerous erosion of code quality, architectural consistency, and long-term maintainability.

#AI-coding#code-quality#software-architecture...

legacy-modernization

Legacy Modernization’s Dirty Secret: Technical Debt Is the Least of Your Problems

The real blockers in legacy migration aren’t outdated code, they’re knowledge silos, risk-averse culture, and organizational inertia that technical teams can’t fix alone.

#legacy-modernization#organizational-culture#software-engineering...

conflict-resolution

The Product-Engineering Manager Cold War: When Business Goals Clash With Technical Reality

An early-career PM’s survival guide to navigating the inevitable conflicts between shipping features and paying down technical debt.

#conflict-resolution#technical-debt

copilot

AI-Coded Monoliths: How Copilot Accelerates Architectural Bankruptcy

Generative coding tools boost velocity while quietly eroding software architecture, creating monoliths faster than ever before. The data reveals a paradox: more code, more technical debt.

#copilot#software-architecture#technical-debt

enterprise-architecture

The Legacy System Trap: Why Modernization Projects Fail More Often Than They Succeed

An unflinching look at the brutal realities of legacy system modernization, from data migration nightmares to organizational resistance that derails even the best-laid plans.

#enterprise-architecture#legacy-systems#modernization...

AI-Generated Code: The Technical Debt Time Bomb

Exploring whether AI code generation tools create production-ready code or just sophisticated technical debt

#AI#code-generation#production-readiness...