Towards an understanding of technical debt
kellan
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Thanks for the great post. These points are interesting to me.

>The two most common solutions both often make the problem worse:

>1. Declaring bankruptcy and rewriting from the ground up.
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2. Papering over the issue with a layer of indirection/proxy/wrapper

As people sarcastically say “We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.” there is a danger trying to “fix” a problem and end up adding extra debt.