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249: 10 Years of Tech Debt

Working Code by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham

Feb 26, 202673:04Technology

For ten years, Adam's codebase has carried an ORM layer that everybody knew was wrong and nobody was touching. Nine hundred functions. Fifteen hundred files. The kind of job that gets solemnly nodded at in architecture m...

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249: 10 Years of Tech Debt is an episode from Working Code by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham. For ten years, Adam's codebase has carried an ORM layer that everybody knew was wrong and nobody was touching. Nine hundre...

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