Diego Pacheco Tech blog

Problem-solving is both a blessing skill and also a curse. It's on every software architect/engineer veins. It's pretty addictive and makes us feel useful and smart. Having sharp problem-solving skills is always great. I mean talent is gold. We want more talent, and what talent do intelligent solutions to complex problems. The heart of software engineering is fixing problems. Don't get me wrong this is good. However, sometimes we need to go with HARD DECISIONS. I can't think of a harder choice today than decide to pay the technical debt. However, once you got a design wrong and started things with the wrong feet is easy yo keep pushing problems aways without belly and keep the debt growing. Why does it happen?  

Organizations need Lean more than ever. IT became a huge waste factory. Software scale works backward, the more money you throw in, the bigger the project the bigger your risk and bigger the waste you have. The technology work backward because If you think about Milk, the bigger the scale the cheap is the price. I was wondering how did we get into the position we are. Tech debt does not describe debt anymore, we are dealing with a totally bigger order of magnitude scale of debt. Tech debt can be big but I'm talking something beyond big. Maybe at the scale that some governments have debts with the  IMF . Why did we go south without noticing? I have some theories. Technology is like a time bomb, companies might start breaking because of it at some point. The debt become so high that multiple 3-5 years of investments might not be able to pay then off and business might start failing because of the bad technology practices. You might think I'm crazy. Because of business operates ...