Longer thoughts (still practical)
This is where I put the “one level deeper” version of what I share on LinkedIn — still practical, still tied to outcomes.
Article: Technical Debt Is a Financial Decision
Technical debt isn’t a moral failure — it’s a choice. And like any choice, it has a carrying cost. The problem is most teams track that cost in tickets and pain, not in dollars and risk exposure.
If you want exec alignment, frame debt the same way you’d frame any other liability: probability, impact, and timeline. “What happens if we defer?” is a finance question as much as a tech question.
- Cost of delay: lost productivity, slower change velocity, and hidden “tax” on every project.
- Risk exposure: higher chance of outages, security gaps, and vendor EOL events.
- People impact: more on-call load and burnout, which becomes attrition cost.
Article: Reliability as a Business Differentiator
Reliability is rarely the headline — until it’s gone. The fastest way to lose internal trust is repeated instability. The fastest way to earn it is predictable systems and clean communication.
Reliability isn’t just uptime. It’s change success rate, mean-time-to-recover, and how quickly teams can deliver without fear of breaking things.
- Build the basics: monitoring that matters, clear ownership, and runbooks that actually get used.
- Reduce blast radius: segmentation, standard patterns, and sane rollback plans.
- Make it measurable: define SLOs that map to user impact and business operations.
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