Technical Debt & Economics | Thomas Nys

Technical debt maintenance costs - strategies to reduce 40% engineering overhead

3 Ways to Escape the 40% Maintenance Trap

Data platform migration timeline - why lakehouse projects exceed estimates

The Migration That Took Three Years

Shadow IT governance risk - citizen development hidden costs for data teams

Citizen Development Creates Enterprise Debt

Data platform ROI calculation - making invisible benefits visible to CFOs

The Data Platform ROI Nobody Calculates

Cloud cost optimization - architecture decisions behind $100B annual waste

Cloud Cost Shock - $100B in Waste

Continuous refactoring strategy - building cleanup into daily delivery routines

Refactoring Without Stopping Delivery

AI architecture requirements - why data quality issues amplify at scale

AI Won't Fix Your Architecture - It Will Amplify It

Technical debt maintenance ratio - 40% of engineering time on yesterday's shortcuts

40% Maintaining, 20% Innovating - The Technical Debt Math Nobody Talks About

Cloud migration failure case study - why lift-and-shift costs twice

The 100k Cloud Migration Mistake

Technical debt as permanent friction - why drag slows every delivery sprint

From Technical Debt to Technical Drag