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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

You Will Migrate Eventually: A developer approach to technology adoption

Luisa Rink , Wouter Ligtenberg

Technical debt is a high-interest loan drawn for execution speed, not an engineering failure. Discover how ING's phase-based tech adoption model scales backend architecture without drowning in legacy code.

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