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# Resolving technical debts in software architecture


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 10:50–11:20 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 9
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** c#, c++, design patterns, java, software architecture, typescript

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1680-resolving-technical-debts-in-software-architecture)

## Description

Today programmers do not develop applications from scratch, but they spend their time fixing, extending, modifying and enhancing existing applications. The biggest problem in their daily work is that with time maintenance mutates from structured programming to defensive programming: The code becomes too complex to be maintained. We put in code we know is stupid from an architectural point of view but it is the only solution that will hopefully work. Maintenance is more and more difficult and expensive. Our software accumulates technical debts.
In this talk, you will see how you should improve your architecture and source code to prevent technical debt growing unrestricted. With the proper knowledge about well-structured architecture, refactorings for tangled code can quickly be found. Complex code can be eliminated, and maintenance costs will be reduced.


## Speaker

### [Carola Lilienthal](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@carola-lilienthal)

WPS - Workplace Solutions


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