Technical Debt as Theory Building and Practice

Explore the connections between technical debt, housework/carework, and infrastructure in this 51-minute conference talk from SREcon25 Americas by Yvonne Z. Lam. Learn strategies for understanding the shape of your technical debt, identifying which components to address, and constructing narratives with conceptual integrity around technical debt. This USENIX presentation offers a theoretical framework combined with practical approaches to managing technical debt in infrastructure systems.