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A Jenga tower about to collapse: Software erosion is happening all around us


Modern software architectures are a Jenga tower about to collapse

Software erosion eventually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy – a destabilizing chain reaction, where the tiniest quality-of-life patch is both a headache to implement and a risk to functionality for teams in other silos. When you factor in meetings, time for comments and feedback, etc, you surely end up with less than half the week left for value-add development. This article was produced as part of TechRadarPro's Expert Insights channel where we feature the best and brightest minds in the technology industry today.

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