Today’s episode is about technical debt, not as a cautionary tale, but as a lens. We take a closer look at where debt comes from, how it quietly rewires teams, and why paying it off is rarely just a matter of “cleaning up code.” Along the way, we’ll examine two real-world stories: one where unaddressed debt led to a $440 million disaster, and another where a company used an infrastructure overhaul to rebuild architectural trust. This is about more than code. It’s about momentum, memory, and the systems we inherit.
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Page It to the Limit is a podcast that focuses on what it means to operate software in production. Hosted by the PagerDuty Developer Relations Team, we cover the leading practices used in the software industry to improve both system reliability and the lives of the people responsible for supporting it.