Not Invented Here Syndrome and Dark Debt: The PagerDuty Story
A medium length talk I gave at SRECon Europe 2018, about how the development and use of an in house distributed task scheduler/queue within PagerDuty was an example of Dark Debt.
wheel based on the belief that in-house developments are inherently better suited, more secure, more controlled, quicker to develop, and incur lower overall cost than using existing implementations…”
on Coping With Complexity. 2017 “….Dark debt was named to draw a parallel with dark matter. Dark matter has detectable effects on the world but cannot be seen or detected directly….Dark debt is found in complex systems and the anomalies it generates are complex system failures….Dark debt is not recognizable at the time of creation. Its impact is not to foil development but to generate anomalies….”