In this episode of Technical Debt: Design, Risk and Beyond, hosts Maxim Silaev and Nikita Golovko break down one of the most widely documented technical-debt disasters in modern enterprise IT: the failed 2018 TSB Bank migration. More than two million customers lost access to their accounts, systems malfunctioned for weeks, and leadership was forced to answer to regulators. But behind the headlines lies a deeper lesson: technical debt exists at multiple layers: strategic, product, and architec...
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In this episode of Technical Debt: Design, Risk and Beyond, hosts Maxim Silaev and Nikita Golovko break down one of the most widely documented technical-debt disasters in modern enterprise IT: the failed 2018 TSB Bank migration. More than two million customers lost access to their accounts, systems malfunctioned for weeks, and leadership was forced to answer to regulators. But behind the headlines lies a deeper lesson: technical debt exists at multiple layers: strategic, product, and architec...
How product strategy silently shapes your architecture, and what architects can do about it
Technical Debt: Design, risk and beyond
34 minutes
6 months ago
How product strategy silently shapes your architecture, and what architects can do about it
In this episode, we explore how product strategy - even when not explicitly technical - has a profound and in most times invisible impact on software architecture. From market segmentation to feature prioritisation, many product decisions quietly affect long-term architectural consequences. We unpack how phrases like "just support one more use case" or "we might add multi-tenancy later" seem innocent, but translate directly into complexity, coupling, and irreversible system shape. When archit...
Technical Debt: Design, risk and beyond
In this episode of Technical Debt: Design, Risk and Beyond, hosts Maxim Silaev and Nikita Golovko break down one of the most widely documented technical-debt disasters in modern enterprise IT: the failed 2018 TSB Bank migration. More than two million customers lost access to their accounts, systems malfunctioned for weeks, and leadership was forced to answer to regulators. But behind the headlines lies a deeper lesson: technical debt exists at multiple layers: strategic, product, and architec...