mike.mainguy

What is technical debt? Some examples of technical debt are: Code that has error scenarios and will fail in certain scenarios in a way that is undesireable. Code that doesn't perform as well as desired or (like above) performs well for some percentage of use cases, but other degenerate cases will not work as well as desired. Software written in a way that requires undesireable manual workarounds or processes. Software that is difficult to read, is undocumented, or otherwise makes maintenance more difficult that necessary. Why does it happen? In my experience, good developer incur technical debt in order to achieve some other business objective that has higher value than the debt incurred. For example...if I spend 5 minutes to write some hacky/difficult to read code that fails 1 out 100 times, but that enables my business to reap thousands of dollars of revenue, I might be inclined to "just do it". Of course, in my oh so humble op...

Online Commerce In the olden days, digital commerce had a "dividing line"... Businesses that sell to other businesses (B2B) and businesses that sell directly to consumers (B2C). In the recent decade or so, another model has emerged which are businesses that a) sell to both b) partner with other companies for portions of the solution. B2B - generally B2B solutions are geared around selling large quantities (or very specialized/custom products) wholesale to customers who either a) use the products in the course of doing their business (think a robot supplier for an automaker). or b) resell the products to consumers in a retail setting (think a manufacturer who make soap and sells it to retailers). Often what happens is that folks don't differentiate the nuance on what B2B actually means. For example, if a manufacturer sells a multi-million dollar tool to another manufacterer/service provider (think robots, earth moving equipment, airplane avionics testing gear) e...