Irrespective of what a company's leadership says about its culture, priorities, or expectations for how people will work with each other, the structures put in place in a workplace create a set of rules for "winning," or maximizing the benefit to oneself or one's group. Especially if the employees hired are reasonably intelligent, they will always deduce the way to operate within the system while optimizing whatever outcomes they consider beneficial. In this way, working within an...

Technical Debt is a real phenomenon that impacts every codebase at some point. It is seen as a consequences of poor architecture and a hasty development culture which saves teams’ time, effort, money today but might lead to increased costs in the future. However, it can be a very useful tool and a strategy that helps balance short-term wins and long-term productivity. In this talk you will learn some practical and real world examples of how some well known hyper growth companies accumulated...