Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’”

Joel Spolsky’s classic blog post on avoiding rewriting code from scratch – Things you should never do, part I.

Technical debt as explained by Ward Cunningham, who coined the term.

Code as an asset, a conversation from Hacker News.

Middleware is the “software glue” that provides services to applications beyond those available from the operating system.

Ratpack framework is a toolkit for creating high performance web applications.

React is a front end javascript library.

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML.

User shout out! Nikoksr received the lifeboat badge after answering a question related to math.pow.

Perform 2020 Containers, Kubernetes, and Openshift with Justin Pittman of RedHat