Managing Technical Debt in a Microservice Architecture

Technical debt refers to imperfections and shortcuts in code that can lead to longer development cycles, increased maintenance costs, bugs, etc., if left unaddressed. It is often incurred due to lack of time, knowledge, motivation, or resources. Managing technical debt in a microservice architecture involves implementing small, autonomous services; using feature flags; conducting code reviews; performing automated testing and canary releases; and creating policies for dealing with tech debt. Telepresence is a tool that enables rapid development and testing of microservices by redirecting network traffic from a service in the cloud to a local machine, allowing developers to run integration tests locally.