Ruchit SutharNov 18, 2025
Maintenance as Luxury: The Hidden Cost of 'Cheap' in Software
A $50 watch costs $200 in repairs over 5 years. A $500 watch runs for decades. Software has the same pattern: cheap hosting crashes, cheap contractors create unmaintainable code, skipping tests leads to expensive rewrites. Learn to calculate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), design for maintainability (understandability, changeability, debuggability), and build service-friendly systems.
total-cost-ownershipmaintainabilitytechnical-debt