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How I balance tech debt vs. feature development

Subscribe for more: https://lwj.dev/newsletter — Treating velocity and maintainability as separate concerns is a mistake. Your shipping velocity is directly correlated to how maintainable your code is. Read this on my blog: https://lwj.dev/tech-debt-vs-features Further reading: - https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/10/28/optimize-for-deletion-speed-up-development-without-adding-risk/ Chapters: 0:00 - How do you balance velocity vs. maintainability in a codebase? 0:13 - What the fastest teams' codebases have in common 0:46 - Building for maintainability 1:29 - Why maintainability *is* velocity 2:05 - "Cleaning up tech debt later" is a lie 2:48 - Treat maintainability as a facet of velocity 3:09 - Taking shortcuts causes compounding slowdowns

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Subscribe for more: https://lwj.dev/newsletter — Treating velocity and maintainability as separate concerns is a mistake. Your shipping velocity is directly correlated to how maintainable your code is. Read this on my blog: https://lwj.dev/tech-debt-vs-features Further reading: - https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/10/28/optimize-for-deletion-speed-up-development-without-adding-risk/ Chapters: 0:00 - How do you balance velocity vs. maintainability in a codebase? 0:13 - What the fastest teams' codebases have in common 0:46 - Building for maintainability 1:29 - Why maintainability *is* velocity 2:05 - "Cleaning up tech debt later" is a lie 2:48 - Treat maintainability as a facet of velocity 3:09 - Taking shortcuts causes compounding slowdowns