Intro

Over the past few years, more and more have been written about [*technical debt*](http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html). [This wrong, but useful model](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box#Empirical_Model-Building_and_Response_Surfaces_.281987.29) has helped engineering teams negotiate quality constraints with whoever pays the bills.

> Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the...

As-Is

Monolith, Sacrificial

To-Be

Microservices