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"Technical debt: Design, Risk and Beyond"

Technical debt: design, risk and beyond is a practical, experience-driven book about how technical decisions quietly turn into business risk. It is a practical guide to making the invisible visible, it shows how technical debt forms long before code smells appear, in early architectural anchors, delayed decisions, hype-driven experiments, fragile pipelines, poor onboarding, and silent process drift.

It introduces concrete frameworks to measure and classify debt, translate it into financial and delivery risk, and distinguish deliberate trade-offs from accidental damage. Through real cases, from fintech and SaaS to gaming platforms and startups, the book explains how "temporary" choices accumulate interest, how delay quietly multiplies cost, and how documentation, modularity, and automation can either compound chaos or create leverage.

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This book is written for

founders

CTOs

architects

tech leaders

who must explain risk to business, sell fixes without panic, and keep systems evolvable as teams and markets change

It provides tools the reader can use straight away:

the Hype Test, Debt Heatmaps, Debt Registers, onboarding and living-docs checklists, pipeline reliability metrics, and the Technical Debt Index.

More than a book about architecture and code, it is about leadership:

how to audit reality, align business and engineering, and build a shared language where decisions are explicit, risks are visible, and technical debt is managed as a strategy.

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