--- title: Strategies for Managing Architectural Technical Debt... description: This post discusses strategies for managing architectural technical debt, including major refactoring, building on top of existing systems, and preemptively... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/strategies-for-managing-architectural-technical-debt-that-don-t-work-3el69enuf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Strategies for Managing Architectural Technical Debt that DON’T Work | daily.dev og:description: This post discusses strategies for managing architectural technical debt, including major refactoring, building on top of existing systems, and preemptively... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/strategies-for-managing-architectural-technical-debt-that-don-t-work-3el69enuf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3eL69EnuF.png og:image:alt: Strategies for Managing Architectural Technical Debt that DON’T Work og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Strategies for Managing Architectural Technical Debt that DON’T Work **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@vladistevanovic](https://daily.dev/vladistevanovic) · 7 min read · 6 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary This post discusses strategies for managing architectural technical debt, including major refactoring, building on top of existing systems, and preemptively addressing potential issues. It also highlights effective strategies such as implementing architectural observability tools and making architectural debt a priority. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@vladistevanovic** · 0 upvotes > Thank you for sharing my article! I'm curious to see what the community thinks of the strategies I don't recommend (like major refactoring or building "technical credit") 😊 --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#technical-debt](https://daily.dev/tags/technical-debt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/strategies-for-managing-architectural-technical-debt-that-don-t-work-3el69enuf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Strategies for Managing Architectural Technical Debt that DON’T Work","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/strategies-for-managing-architectural-technical-debt-that-don-t-work-3el69enuf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/strategies-for-managing-architectural-technical-debt-that-don-t-work-3el69enuf"},"datePublished":"2024-04-17T05:45:22.171Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"This post discusses strategies for managing architectural technical debt, including major refactoring, building on top of existing systems, and preemptively...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/104dcf26c76a9ee37248568530aecd32?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/104dcf26c76a9ee37248568530aecd32?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Vladi Stevanovic","url":"https://daily.dev/vladistevanovic","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--aJnCk9oz--/f_auto/v1782893907/avatars/avatar_Kvt45VgZSq8Z5TwKg49NG?_a=BAMAMicg0","description":"Interested in all things AI and distributed systems. 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