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StrategyJan 12, 2024

The True Cost of Technical Debt in Enterprise

The "move fast and break things" mantra works for social media startups, but it's a disaster for enterprise infrastructure. In high-stakes environments, technical debt is a high-interest loan that eventually defaults, often at the most critical moment.

The Prototype Trap

Many organizations fall into the trap of letting a "quick prototype" become their production backbone. This leads to brittle systems that are impossible to scale and expensive to maintain. We believe in correctness by construction.

Building for the Next Decade

When we build for an enterprise, we aren't just thinking about the current feature set. We're thinking about how this system will handle ten times the data, how it will integrate with future legacy systems, and how a new team of engineers will understand it five years from now.

Investing in quality early on is not a luxury—it's a risk management strategy. Clean architecture, comprehensive testing, and rigorous documentation are what separate a liability from an asset.

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