Hosted by Nick Selby · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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Chris Swan and Nick Selby, two long-time technology industry and information security leaders, discuss issues related to reducing technical debt.
Nick Selby hosts The Tech Debt Burndown Podcast, a technology show with 20 episodes published.
Chris and Nick speak with Georg Schleiermacher, former CTO of Hyperloop Spain and veteran of MTU Aero Engines, to explore technical debt in the aviation sector. Georg explains that because aero engines remain in service
Nick and Chris explore the behavioral, cultural, and financial implications of deploying AI coding assistants, framing their erratic behavior as that of an "overeager intern" that prioritizes speed over rigor. Sharing re
Nick and Chris talk about the security, data privacy, and operational challenges of enterprise AI adoption, highlighting how executive pressure driven by “Fortune front page FOMO” often leads to hasty deployments. Drawin
Chris and Nick dive into the widespread misunderstandings and economic realities of choosing between cloud and on-premises infrastructure. They discuss how cloud service providers have driven organizations to perform “li
Sarah Wells joins Nick and Chris to talk about the lessons learned from her decade at the Financial Times, and their journey to implementing microservices. The same lessons that informed her book, 'Enabling Microservices
Team Topologies co-author Matthew Skelton joins Chris and Nick to discuss the relationship between tech debt and cognitive load. Matthew explains that every organization has a finite "cognitive load budget," and technica
Chris and Nick chat about how AI Coding Assistants have suddenly become very good, maybe even good enough to write 'load bearing' code. So the constraints the existed around producing code have potentially disappeared; b
After a long hiatus, the Tech Debt Burndown podcast has returned for its third season. Chris Swan and Nick Selby kick off the season with a discussion of what Chris has called Tech Debt as a Service: how we’ve entered th
Krzysztof - Chris - Daniel talks to Nick and Chris about Wardley Mapping and better corporate strategies.
In the Season 1 Finale, Yosef Lehrman talks to Nick and Chris about the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.
Allan Friedman of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has long been one of the world's leading proponents of Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM. With the President's Executive Order on
Eoin Woods has developed quite a bit of software, and created and dealt with quite a lot of technical debt. He is CTO at Endava, and co-author of two software architecture books. On the Tech Debt Burndown he joins Chris
Charity Majors joins Nick and Chris to discuss the difference between observability and metrics, some great insights into good debt (like college loans) versus bad debt (like charging stuff we want on a credit card), and
With the US closed for Memorial Day weekend, and the UK closed for Spring Bank Holiday, we're firing up the grills, and pausing to reflect. In the next few episodes, we'll discuss toil and build times with Charity Majors
On this episode, Chris and Nick are joined by Olivier Jacques, DevOps transformation principal at DXC Technology, who discusses his article, Six Strategies to Set Time Aside to Improve. The six approaches capture some ve
Lots of things get improved by building continuous delivery pipelines and then going back to them and iteratively making improvements. Pipelines themselves can be a place where we accrue tech debt - even at the entry poi
Matthew Skelton
2 appearances on this show
Andy Ellis
candidate for Governor of Maryland · Manhattan Community Health Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Charity Majors
CTO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb · Meant For More Ministries
1 appearance on this show
Wendy Nather
distinguished cyber leader
1 appearance on this show
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