Code Quality and Technical Debt: Balancing Speed and Sustainability Introduction In software development, the quality of the code is critical for maintaining long-term maintainability, scalability, and ease of debugging. However, as projects grow, the reality is that technical debt often accumulates over time. This debt can hinder progress and increase the cost of making changes in the future. Striking a balance between code quality and the accumulation of technical debt is a key challenge for developers and development teams. What is Code Quality? Code quality refers to how well-written, maintainable, efficient, and readable the source code is. High-quality code is easier to understand, modify, and extend, leading to fewer bugs and faster development cycles. The characteristics of high-quality code include: Readability : Code should be easy to read and understand. Developers should be able to quickly interpret what the code does, even if they weren’t the ones who wrote i...