bad?” Erik laughs. “There are many definitions, but my favorite is how it was originally defined by Ward Cunningham in 2003. He said, ‘technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.’ There are many things that people call technical debt, but it usually refers to things we need to clean up, or where we need to create or restore simplicity, so that that we can quickly, confidently, and safely make changes to the system. “Sometimes it’s a build and test system that doesn’t give fast feedback to developers, or when it stops working entirely,” he continues. “Sometimes it’s
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