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Ömer Yanbaş

General Manager, Ticofab Yazılım

Enterprise software, automation and the systems underneath

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Lead · Practice

Making technical debt visible enough to pay

Debt nobody can see never gets budget. Give each item a cost, an interest rate and a place on the same list as features, then pay it inside feature work.

By Ömer Yanbaş6 min read

  • Technical debt that is only described as a feeling competes against features that have numbers attached, and it loses every quarter.
  • Each debt item needs three things written down: where it hurts, what it costs to fix, and the interest, meaning how much slower each release gets while it is unpaid.
  • Deliberate debt was chosen for a reason and can be recorded and revisited, while mess was never chosen by anyone, and the two need different conversations.

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Practice · Operations

Where your team writes down its decisions

Decisions live in chat threads and in people's heads until they vanish. A one paragraph record next to the code keeps the reasons where the work is.

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In brief

  1. Debugging: measure first, guess later

    The order that finds bugs is reproduce, narrow, measure, then theorise. Here is how to bisect changes and inputs, and why the first theory costs the most.

  2. Long jobs get finished in small reversible steps

    How to cut a large piece of work into steps that can each ship and each be undone, with feature flags, expand and contract migrations and a real rollback.

  3. Lab numbers, field data and a real phone

    A synthetic audit, real user data and a phone in your hand answer three different questions. Here is when each one lies and how to measure a change.

  4. An eleven kilobyte home page: the case for static sites

    What pre rendering buys you, what it costs, and the build pipeline, page weight budget and caching rules that keep a static site small and boring.

  5. The scheduled job that never runs at midnight

    A schedule written in one zone on a machine running another, plus daylight saving twice a year, makes a nightly job run late, twice or not at all.

  6. Your backup is a zero byte file and nobody noticed

    Backups fail quietly: a missing tool in the container, a permission, a full disk. Check the size and the row counts, and restore on a schedule.

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Ömer Yanbaş. General manager of Ticofab Yazılım.

I am Ömer Yanbaş, general manager of Ticofab Yazılım. I work on enterprise projects, automation, gaming technology, data structures and energy technology, and I write here about what goes wrong in production and what fixes it.

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