The way people use the phrase “technical debt” implies that good, tested code is debt free. If you are building a software service this is wrong; every line of custom code you maintain is debt.

To be competitive, software products must continually improve. All of the custom code you’ve written yesterday, rewritten today, and what you’ll write tomorrow -- you will be burdened with maintaining, forever.  To build competitive software you must balance this cost when you decide what code gets written, and what gets integrated from upstream.

I’m happy to announce the release of a supported Command Line Interface (CLI) for the Pantheon platform. It’s free, open-source, built on Drush, and available on GitHub:

https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus

In a nutshell, Terminus allows you to do anything you can in the Pantheon dashboard from a terminal:

The invasion of Ukraine has both united and broken the world in unprecedented ways. The question facing many tech companies today is how to protect the internet and people relying on it for information. 

Crippled by international sanctions and blocked from independent media sources, Russia has plunged into economic and digital darkness. With multinational companies leaving Russia at great speed, the public has called on high tech to follow suit and to create what the New Yorker called “a technology desert.” 

In this Forbes article, you’ll learn how WebOps is different from DevOps and what kind of team it takes to move the needle.