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Tactic: Technical debt

Tactic sort: Dark Tactic
Type: Unsustainable Pattern
Category: edge-computing
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Title

Technical debt

Description

When new technologies or business models are developed5 their adoption by the users is not automatic and require some efforts. Some users end up remaining in previous and outdated versions’/models’ ways of working that are less optimized, resulting in an extra resource consumption for the same use. The user either pays for the extra consumption and has an increased technical debt (unsustainable way) or makes the effort to adapt (sustainable way). There is work going on to describe the technical ebt issues related to serverless computing, which shows clearly the drawbacks of choosing the unsustainable way.

Participant

edge-user

Related artifact

Application/service

Context

New business model

Feature

Functions composing the application

Tactic intent

Requiring the user to adapt its application

Intent measure

Adequacy between resource needs and use, technical debt when no adaptation

Countermeasure

Spread studies to increase awareness about the drawbacks of technical debt, the provider providing training in the new technology so that the users completely adopt it, and not seemingly adopt it.

Source

*The Dark Side of Cloud and Edge Computing* by Klervie Toczé, Maël Madon, Muriel Garcia and Patricia Lago (DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.9422c084)


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel