Infrastructure Debt: Revisiting the Foundation

Posted September 30, 2010 | Technology |

THE NATURE OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEBT

Our understanding of what constitutes technical debt changes as our experience and technology advance. Today's best practice inevitably becomes tomorrow's legacy system. The metaphor of technical debt originated before the client-server model became the dominant computing paradigm and hasn't been as widely applied and analyzed in systems. We now have the lessons of nearly two decades of experience managing Web architectures to reflect on.

About The Author
Andrew Shafer
Andrew Clay Shafer is a contributor to Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management practice. He is broadly recognized as a major contributor to devops, having helped spread the body of knowledge now known by this name. As cofounder of Puppet Labs, Mr. Shafer transformed the way people manage IT infrastructure. In particular, he popularized the concept of "infrastructure as code," which allows IT to reframe its processes to take… Read More
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