Technical Debt as Theory Building and Practice

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 4:00 pm–4:45 pm PDT

Yvonne Z. Lam

Abstract: 

I will examine the connections between technical debt, housework/carework, and infrastructure in order to talk through strategies for understanding the shape of your technical debt, picking pieces to pay down, and building narratives with conceptual integrity around technical debt.

Yvonne plays with code, systems, books, cats, food, yarn, dirt, and boats—not all at the same time. She works on devtools, release engineering, quality, and reliability.

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BibTeX
@conference {305551,
author = {Yvonne Lam},
title = {Technical Debt as Theory Building and Practice},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}
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