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16 - Technical Debt

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn about:

• “Refactoring”: restructuring of code to improve structure.
• Some common code examples for “smells” (anti-patterns).
• “Technical Debt”: generalization covering all internal problems in a codebase
• Some examples about how technical debt may be paid.

Lecture Slides:

• Technical Debt Slides PDF, PPT

Resources

• Book: Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code
• Book: Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development
• Software Engineering at Google - Chapter 15 (Deprecation)
• Technical Debt: From Metaphor to Theory and Practice (IEEE Software artice from 2012)
• “Refactoring typescript - Jetbrains.com”
• “Why Facebook Invented A New PHP-Derived Language Called “Hack””
• “Keynote PyCon 2017 - Instagram from Python 2 to Python 3”
• “Instagram Makes a Smooth Move to Python 3”
• “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”