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This is the first half of my book, “Swimming in Tech Debt”. It is available at a pre-launch sale price of $0.99 (https://loufranco.com/tech-debt-book).

I have been working on it since January 2024. It is based on some posts in my blog, but expands on my ideas quite a bit.

In September 2024, excerpts appeared in Gergely Orosz’s Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, which helped me get a lot of feedback that expanded the book from my initial idea. This half is about what I expected to do before that —- the rest of the book goes into team and CTO practices.

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natch ◴[] No.45141928[source]
Someone has to mention Working Effectively With Legacy Code, by Michael Feathers, still a fantastic book.

https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Fe...

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1. loumf ◴[] No.45142301[source]
Love that book. Also, "A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout