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Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019 on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2022.

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Adam Tornhill's GOTO Copenhagen 2019 talk on how to prioritize technical debt in large codebases. It argues for combining code complexity with change frequency (hotspots) from version control data, rather than trying to quantify debt in the abstract.

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Cited as a practical approach to finding the technical debt that matters, and as a reference for codebase visualization.

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“I think Adam Tornhill has a nice take on this.”
— clumsysmurf, Jan 2021, in “Code Age vs. Time to Recall”

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3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

clumsysmurfJan 2021Recommends

I think Adam Tornhill has a nice take on this. He recommends tech debt not be quantified as such, but encourages focusing on areas with high complexity and large churn GOTO 2019 • Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters • Adam Tornhill ▶ this video

in “Code Age vs. Time to Recall” · View on HN

sargstuffDec 2022Cites it

principlkes of chaos engineering : [link] unix as an ide : [link] using ed : [link] editor articles : [link] pioritizing technical debt : ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: Resources/discussions about program architecture” · View on HN

nephrenkaAug 2021Cites it

That's a great visual presentation, but not really an innovation. The CodeScene tool has that built in together with a set of deep analyses on top (see [link] ). There are several public conference talks that cover this visualization and related use cases: ▶ this video

in “Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase” · View on HN

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