Hasty Treat - Technical Debt

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Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about technical debt — what it is, why does it occur, and some techniques for reducing and avoiding it. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 03:17 - What is technical debt Outdated or hard to update code If you groan when you have to work on it, it might be a sign of technical debt Brittle code, easily breakable Quirks and features 06:55 - Why does it occur Over time, any garden left un-pruned will become overgrown Many people, many code styles Using hot new frameworks / techniques This is why seasoned developers don’t jump on new things You allow users to do literally anything 13:18 - Techniques for avoiding it Deny your FOMO of new things Abstract Write good tests Don’t put off refactors Update dependencies frequently Good standards Etsy has thousands of devs 20:08 - Examples in the real world Airline websites open in new windows all the time Cellphone carrier flashes the screen 100x 22:15 - Unfixable technical debt Agency work sometimes Links Next React Router TailwindCSS Redux Etsy Dave Ramsey Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with javascript CSS node module barbecue tips get work flows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the
0:13.5	Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West
0:19.2	Barakuda boss and Scott El Toro local to Lenski
0:25.3	Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about debt and I'm not talking about
0:35.5	Financial debt. I'm talking about technical debt now technical debt is the type of thing that can really show its head in long-term
0:43.2	projects and really make you pull your hair out sometimes. So we're going to be talking a little bit about what it is
0:49.2	Why does it occur and maybe some techniques for reducing it or avoiding it? My name is Scott
0:55.8	Tulenski. I'm a developer for Denver Colorado and with me as always is the West boss
1:02.8	Excited to be here. It's a talk about technical debt. Yeah me too. This episode is sponsored by Prismic and a century now
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1:17.0	It also allows you to tie those errors directly to releases specific even like maybe user objects, right?
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1:27.6	But it gave me some weird error and you're saying hmm. I've never heard of that error
1:31.4	Maybe there's something very special with this one particular user's object or user account
1:36.3	Well now you could actually tie that that exception that took place to a specific user and then maybe dive into figure out what's going on
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