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SCALER POD 07 ft. Akash Saxena, CTO, Hotstar | Cricket, Managing Scale and Future of OTT Platforms

Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer's Podcast

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Tech Debt, Can You Build a Scaffold?

I use this term called forward debt. You know, my team hears it obsessively from me, right? And the simplest representation of it is a, you know, if you see a building coming up, a scaffold is a forward debt. It is a promise of a building. Can you build a scaffold to start it? Correct. Sure. Take up tech debt, but if you'll be cognizant of that. Yes. Eventually it will be an API and some fancy predictive logic. Okay. That's the promise of aBuilding. Right. So, so taking a strand from that, where you're saying, like, we are solving a customer problem, like keeping

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