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The problem with the tech debt mindset
Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’”
Learn more about technical bankruptcy in this blog post, “Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off.”
Joel Spolsky’s classic blog post on avoiding rewriting code from scratch – Things you should never do, part I.
Technical debt as explained by Ward Cunningham, who coined the term.
Code as an asset, a conversation from Hacker News.
Middleware is the “software glue” that provides services to applications beyond those available from the operating system.
Ratpack framework is a toolkit for creating high performance web applications.
React is a front end javascript library.
jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML.
Questions about functional programming.
User shout out! Nikoksr received the lifeboat badge after answering a question related to math.pow.