Technical Debt & Architecture Erosion — Roadmap Step & Resources
How architectures drift from their intended design over time, and how to notice it early
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: System Architecture
Before this step
Interview questions
- How do you distinguish deliberate technical debt from accidental architecture erosion?
Study resources
- Technical Debt (Article) — Martin Fowler's own article on the technical debt metaphor and how architectures erode.
- Technical Debt Explained (Video) — A practical explanation of deliberate technical debt vs accidental architecture erosion.
Part of
- Architecture Governance & Trade-off Analysis — section
- System Architecture roadmap — the full learning path