Buried in Technical Debt? Making the Right Investments in Your Code

About the Presentation: Have you ever taken a shortcut to complete a task, assuring yourself that you would go back and clean it up and do it the right way later when you had the time? In software, this is called “technical debt,” and when it piles up, it can make code hard to read and maintain. Soon enough, the cost to fix these problems can become too high, and convincing your team to take action becomes increasingly difficult. In this talk, we will discuss the different types of technical debt, how to convince other people in the organization of the importance of making regular “minimum payments,” and some creative strategies to keep in mind for software projects with excessive “accrued interest.”

About the Presenter: Chris Stone is a software engineer with a passion for learning new things and solving puzzles. He primarily writes C# and TypeScript to make web applications, but he is always looking to learn new languages, platforms, stacks, and paradigms. He is a proponent of mob programming, test-driven development, refactoring, and safely managing technical debt. He is an event organizer of the Software Crafters Atlanta meetup group and he currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at AfterSchool HQ.

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