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Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta's journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in reco...

According to Marijn Huizenveld, discipline is key to preventing accumulating technical debt. In order to be disciplined you should make it difficult to ignore the debt. Heuristics like fixing small issues immediately, agreeing on a timebox for improvement, and making messy things look messy, can help tame technical ...

Para leer en Español clic aquí.In case you need any more reasons to prioritize software quality, let me share with you that the cost of poor software quality in the US has risen to at least $2.41 trillion annually, while the accumulated technical debt of software has grown to approximately $1.52 trillion.This is dem...