Rewrite or Not? Life with Technical Debt

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A retrospective on managing technical debt in a production system, describing practical changes made: removing VPN to improve developer ergonomics, introducing CI and end-to-end tests, building an Updater for deployments, and delegating work to other teams via plugins. The talk emphasizes maintaining a product roadmap and vision while balancing refactoring versus incremental improvements.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:18What is technical debt
3. 3:21Solving technical debt
4. 6:11Convincing business
5. 9:02Case study: Dashboard
6. 13:04Case study: Commerce solution
7. 21:25Rewriting from scratch
8. 27:11Convincing the team
9. 31:04Technical debt in new projects
10. 34:20Challenges and mistakes
11. 37:55Results and achievements
12. 39:38Managing technical debt
13. 41:02Q&A

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