Episode 117: Surviving Technical Debt

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Mike Ryan @MikeRyanDev

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Resources:

• Ngrx
• Martin Fowler on Technical Debt
• SemVer (Semantic Versioning)
• How We Build Code at Netflix
• Waterfall vs Agile
• More on Agile vs Waterfall
• BDUF (“Big Design Up Front”)
• YAGNI - You Aint Gunna Need It
• YAGNI
• AHA - Avoid Hasty Abstractions
• How to identify tech debt
• Angular CLI's ng update
• Introduction to Microservices
• Micro-frontends
• Baby Yoda (Grogu) toy example
• Fembot

Timejumps

• 01:47:10 Guest introduction
• 02:33:17 What is it like to maintain Ngrx?
• 05:46:00 Managing versions
• 07:56:00 Recommendations for new projects
• 11:08:08 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 12:18:05 Designing to avoid tech debt
• 14:55:02 How do you decide whether to start fresh or use old methods?
• 28:25:00 Sponsor: Nrwl
• 29:01:00 Do you rewrite projects?
• 36:58:12 What do you wish you knew then that you know now?
• 37:55:11 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

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