Technical Debt Is Like Tetris

You can’t win. You can only control how quickly you lose.

Eric Higgins

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What’s your next move? Screenshots: Emulator Online

Like most people who’ve played it, I love Tetris. I still remember playing it for the first time on a friend’s Nintendo Game Boy. Not only is Tetris one of the best games of all time, it’s an excellent analogue for technical debt. The impacts of technical debt are something I’m deeply familiar with — I deal with them…

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Eric Higgins

Maker, inventor, engineer, nerd, & author of Security From Zero: Practical Security for Busy People