Technical debt is inevitable that every organization has to pay someday with time, resources, and money, mainly for choosing speed over quality. Other tech debt sources are legacy architecture, outdated technology, un-updated servers, substandard tools used for development, etc. Enterprises spendIT teams nowadays are increasingly expected to meet critical speed-to-market requirements.
In other words, there are consequences when an enterprise decides to build software by selecting the shortcut, taking a faster and simpler way for on-time delivery instead of a detailed and excellent one. So, yes, short-term benefits are certainly there, but at the expense of long-term value.Measurements, in general, allow you to understand where to focus and what to fix.
So, let’s see how organizations should entwine some essential practices into various phases of the DevOps lifecycle to address the technical debt challenges.As DevOps teams are responsible for managing the entire lifecycle of software development, they have to face tech debt challenges every day. According to a, over 60% of engineers believe tech debt causes outages, introduces bugs, and slows down development. And so, motivating them is the most sensible solution to solving technical debt.
Bugs can appear in the code when development teams implement new features. Automated code analysis and testing can help find these bugs earlier in the process, so the shipped product is bug-free. Furthermore, when you embody automation in the CI/CD process with automated builds and testing, you can identify conflicts between new code and the production branch earlier. Besides, automation enforces quality standards, which further reduces tech debt.