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Re:AWS Tools Suck on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:02AM (#29593985)
I wonder how AWS compare with their competitor
Re:Ask HN: How to prioritize tech debt on old system? on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:20AM (#22661887)
> As far as scheduling to tackle the tech debt, work toward including it in the requirements for future work. You must address X to build Y, etc. Addressing technical debt as a project that leads to no new end result (eliminating toil is one), has little (but not zero) value.

This advice is very actionable, I'll try it out, thanks for the tip!

Re:Ask HN: How to prioritize tech debt on old system? on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:18AM (#22661876)
Sorry that I present myself to be critical to the team, I am not and I am impressed with how much they achieved given the time frame. In fact, all of the team are in agreement on most of the issues, but I am not entirely sure what to prioritize and how to balance it with the regular feature work

Ask HN: How to prioritize tech debt on old system?

Posted by qingwei91 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi, I was being assigned to a new team as a lead 2 weeks ago. I am not familiar with the team's existing system. There are many bits and pieces that I find non-ideal.For example, existing monitoring and alerting are lacking and noisy at the same time, integration test is non-existent, unit test coverage is low and many important code paths are not being tested.How should I tackle these tech...

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Re:Reasonable Scala Compiler on Friday August 18, 2017 @03:59AM (#15044376)
It depends on project size, twitter likely have some really huge scala project, but many organization are now going for microservices, so compile time is less of an issue