Technical Debt - Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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Your legacy software is a ticking bomb

Tick tock… Act now, or this mess might blow up in your face.
Matheus Richard
December 29, 2025
- Technical Debt
- Programming
How fast can you go?

Speeding up takes just one word.
Richard Newman
December 17, 2025
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
- TDD
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
- Technical Debt
Address Tech Debt with SRE Panel Recap

Recap of technical leadership panel on addressing tech debt with site reliability engineering.
Victoria Guido
July 22, 2022
- SRE
- Technical Debt
- DevOps
- Events
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
Selling Technical Debt to the Business

Strategies for getting the budget needed to tackle technical debt.
Rick Gorman
July 16, 2020
- Technical Debt
- Sales
Addressing technical debt

Discover strategies for addressing technical debt and improving code quality through refactoring and collaboration.
Joël Quenneville
November 4, 2019
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
Delivering features faster

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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