The CodeNewbie podcast was born from CodeNewbie, an organization which fosters a supportive, international community of people learning to code. Each season, host Saron Yitbarek delivers stories and interviews from people of diverse backgrounds and expertise about their coding journeys, as well as beginner friendly discussions about the tech you should know about.
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S12:E5 - How to not get bogged down in technical debt (Nina Zakharenko)
In this episode we’re talking about technical debt, with Nina Zakharenko, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Nina talks about what causes technical debt, what can happen when it gets out of control, and how we can mitigate the accumulation of that debt.
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- Technical debt
- Hanson
- HTML
- Yahoo! GeoCities
- Java
- Python
- The Recurse Center
- Mainframe computer
- COBOL
- Technical Debt: The code monster in everyone's closet
- Style guide
- PEP 8
- Unit testing
- Code review
- Git
- Microsoft Azure
- Visual Studio Code
- PyCon US
- The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks
- CFP
- Open source
Nina Zakharenko is a developer advocate, software engineer, pythonista, & speaker.