Paying Tech Debt Forward

1 · BuzzFeed · Feb. 20, 2019, 6:40 p.m.
How BuzzFeed turned a backlog into a benefit for coders and charity.It started as most projects in tech generally begin — with the desire to break things while eating sheet cake.Or maybe that’s just a “BuzzFeed” thing. Or possibly just a “me” thing.Something that is definitely not just a “BuzzFeed” thing is tech debt. We leave it all over the place, and we promise ourselves that we’ll definitely take care of it next sprint. Except for that other project we want to get done by the end of this mon...