This talk was given at PyCon 2015 in Montréal, Canada.
Technical debt is the code monster hiding in everyone’s closet. If you ignore it, it will terrorize you at night. To banish it and re-gain your productivity, you’ll need to face it head on.
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I’ve worked at many institutions with many programming languages over the past decade. They all have technical debt. Putting on a band-aid and ignoring the real issues can be disastrous. We’ll go through several case studies, review big red flags, and learn how to start chipping away at the problem with confidence.
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This talk was featured in several blog posts.
- Five Great PyCon 2015 Videos That Aren’t About Python
- New Relic Blog - A Look at Technical Debt: The Code Monster in Your Closet
- opensource.com - PyCon 2015 conference report & video roundup
- opensource.com - PyCon 2015 conference report & video roundup
- DZone - A Look at Technical Debt: The Code Monster in Your Closet
- A Look at Technical Debt: The Code Monster in Your Closet
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.@nnja Watched your PyCon Technical Debt talk this morning. Great advice all around in that. Thanks! https://t.co/dWfi7Ur0Mm
— David Beazley (@dabeaz) April 16, 2015
#pycon2015 Check out the slides from @nnja Nina Zakharenko's excellent talk on technical debt http://t.co/PQ6ztrd8zZ
— Raymond Hettinger (@raymondh) April 12, 2015
“An elegant codebase is one that was worked on by multiple people, but looks like it was worked on by one.” - @nnja #pycon
— jacobian (@jacobian) April 11, 2015
"Lines of code committed ≠ amount of work accomplished" @nnja at #pycon2015, about technical debt — so truuuuuue! https://t.co/8XLhF3Xs9A
— Jérôme Petazzoni (@jpetazzo) April 12, 2015
Fantastic presentation by @nnja on the costs of technical debt: very important for scientific computing and #hpc http://t.co/pS10gWDWUg
— Paul Henning (@paul_henning) April 15, 2015
@rikkiends One of my favorite talks was @nnja's on Technical Debt. If you do a follow up it's worth listing: https://t.co/UYOWwtiSVK
— Jeff Triplett 😷💉💉💯 (@webology) April 28, 2015
Nina Zakharenko - Technical Debt - The code monster in everyone's closet... https://t.co/OwFtfwXVb7 @nnja: Thanks for the practical advice.
— Susan Tan (@ArcTanSusan) January 27, 2016