Independent IT Professional
Data continuously flows through organisations, and on its way, it's transformed many times to serve different purposes. Functional design emphasises data transformation—projections— rather than repeatedly mutating state in a single database. One particularly useful form of projection is the creation of read-optimised data structures tailored to well-defined use cases.
The Intelligence & Efficiency Team was formed two years ago. It is a digital, remote team that is spread out over several cities in two countries. When I joined them, their software was new and just about to go live. We rolled it out at the same time as we added a lot of new features. And, we did it under extreme time pressure.
When developers take shotcuts or decrease the quality to gain time, they will cause a technical debt. By doing nothing and letting the system age, the technical debt is growing too.
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