There are many times where a call to get some data is time-consuming or expensive. Perhaps it makes a webservice call, or a network connection to a database, or iterates over a large collection to perform a calculation. If the values isn’t going to change rapidly, and might be needed again soon, it’s natural to want to save the value for that use. Read More
Ward Cunningham originally coined the term Technical Debt and described it at OOPSLA 1992
“Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite… The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a stand-still under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.”
In this, Ward was not referring to poor programming practices, Read More