Luka Kladaric
Shipping Quality Software In Hostile Environments
#1about 4 minutes
Defining hostile environments and technical debt
Technical debt is the implied cost of easy solutions, manifesting as unpaginated APIs, fragile code, and broken deployment processes.
#2about 6 minutes
The compounding harm of ignoring technical debt
Common excuses for tech debt lead to a vicious cycle of lower productivity, tanking morale, and a "bad neighborhood" codebase where quality standards are abandoned.
#3about 7 minutes
A case study of a company in tech bankruptcy
A real-world example shows how a monolithic repo, on-premise tooling, and a lack of local development environments led to daily outages and technical bankruptcy.
#4about 6 minutes
How a small team fixed tech bankruptcy incrementally
A small ops team worked "in the shadows" to incrementally rebuild the build server, split the monorepo, and automate deployments using Ansible.
#5about 4 minutes
Rebranding tech debt as ongoing sustainability work
Shift the mindset from "paying down tech debt" to "sustainability work," treating it as regular hygiene necessary to maintain development velocity.
#6about 10 minutes
Gaining management buy-in for sustainability work
To convince leadership, avoid all-or-nothing projects, deliver small valuable increments, and frame the work as essential for maintaining long-term productivity.
#7about 3 minutes
Why everyone in the company should care about sustainability
Sustainable development is a shared responsibility from the CEO to junior engineers, as it ensures the company can continue to deliver results efficiently.
#8about 2 minutes
Why rewriting from scratch is almost never the answer
The software industry is filled with failed rewrites, making incremental refactoring a much safer and more effective approach than starting over.
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