Technical Debt

By Nicholas Kajoh, Java Engineer, Payments, Adyen — In this article, we share lessons learned from refactoring large swaths of our code so that you can avoid some of the pitfalls involved, and of course reap the benefits of having code that works well and is easy to change. One of the eight principles of the Adyen Formula…

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There are plenty of articles out there on how to handle and manage technical debt. It’s pretty common to acknowledge that it’s difficult to understand the value of resolving technical debt. There’s a pernicious perception that tech debt isn’t valuable to the business directly. This hasn’t gone away. And in…

When a team reacts to an emergency, other work suffers, and quick and dirty changes cause a lot of technical debt. Write down the best before date on those stories and make it plain that they are unique so you can manage them. If you use impact maps, put time…

Financial management is crucial as personal and business expenditures grow. Understanding where efficiency can be boosted and where costs can be cut is vital for a positive business cash flow. Something which may be overlooked is your technical debt. Here Barry O’Donnell, Chief Technology Officer at TSG, will explore how…

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses must be agile and adaptable to keep up with the competition. However, many organizations are burdened with legacy applications that are outdated, inefficient, and difficult to maintain. These legacy apps are not only a drain on resources but can also lead to technical debt…

You start your sprint, write your code and create PR. Then, you ask your team member to review it. During the review process, you run the code in the development environment and check the functionalities by making sure it does not break the system. Does the code work without any…

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TL;DR I'm creating a command-line tool: Complexity Radar. It returns your GitHub repository's top N most frequently changed files and calculates the Cognitive Complexity index for each function and the Afferent/Efferent coupling with other modules. …