---
title: "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
source_url: https://www.multiplayer.app/blog/strategies-for-managing-architectural-technical-debt-that-dont-work/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
author: "Vladi Stevanovic"
published: 2024-04-17T05:45:22.171Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["career", "architecture", "observability", "technical-debt"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 6
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# 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: <https://www.multiplayer.app/blog/strategies-for-managing-architectural-technical-debt-that-dont-work/>

## 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") 😊

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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)

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