The Hidden Cost of Technical Debt: A Real Numbers Breakdown
Last month, I spent 47 hours refactoring a single Node.js service. The codebase was 18 months old. The original developer was long gone. And every new feature request became a 3-day archaeological expedition. I’ve been tracking technical debt costs across projects for the past two years. Not gut feelings or estimates - actual time measurements. The numbers are worse than you think, but they’re also more predictable than most teams realize. ...