Lately I have been kind of stumbling into a couple of issues related to technical debt, a bit more than I really wanted to so I guess it's time to write about this some things. Also, some ideas about this have been brewing in the back of my head for some time now so now is the moment to write all of it. The first thing that comes in my mind when thinking about technical debt is how big is the area affected by it. In the best of circumstances it might affect just a specific area in an application, usually a specific feature because of bad implementation, unclear requirements, various disruptions, tight deadlines or many other reasons. This kind of technical debt usually doesn't have a wide ranging negative impact because it's local to a specific area. The only concerning case it when it affects a critical feature that it used often and updated often, even by other features. On the next level, several areas of an application might be affected by some technical debt issue. Th