Chernobyl: The True Cost Of Technical Debt

5 years ago
Anonymous $9jpehmcKty

https://medium.com/better-programming/chernobyl-the-true-cost-of-technical-debt-8307e6f4d53c

Sky and HBOHBO’s Chernobyl drew me in instantly. Not just because of the drama or history around the famed incident, it was the way actor Jared Harris (Valery Legasov) approached mitigating the nuclear explosion that was mesmerizing to me. Watching his character mentally engineer a solution with the least risks based on the current assumptions only to run into unforeseeable issues later resonated with my engineering side.

More than anything else, Chernobyl is a stark reminder of the true cost of technical debt.