Topic: decision-making
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Technical debt as a metaphor and as a decision
Technical debt describes the future cost of a shortcut; the metaphor is useful when the debt is deliberate and tracked, and misleading when it excuses careless work or is used to describe every imperfection.
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Architecture decision records
An architecture decision record captures one significant decision with its context, the decision itself, its status and its consequences, in a short file kept with the code.
Machine-readable: JSON