Kotlin was designed to be very similar to Java to make migration as smooth as possible. However, Kotlin was also designed to improve the developers' experience by providing a more expressive syntax an

In software engineering, we’re often faced with trade-offs that sacrifice what is best for the long term against something that increases velocity in the short term. A commonly used financial analogy is describing this as taking on technical debt.
I will not cover accidental and deliberate tech debt, neither will I give a decision making framework in this article. That is its own subject, and context specific.
However, there is a mental framework that has worked well for me across different teams, codebases and systems.

Matt Greenberg  is the CTO at Reforge, former VP Engineering at Credit Karma, and co-creator of the  Scaling Product Delivery program .

Matt Greenberg  is the CTO at Reforge, former VP Engineering at Credit Karma, and co-creator of the  Scaling Product Delivery program .

Meet Popeye - ⁦@kubernetesio⁩ cluster sanitizer github.com/derailed/popeye