It can feel like a Shakespearean tragedy having to deal with technical debt when starting feature work - especially when the debt was accrued from a pair of star-crossed lovers - two teams working in parallel. Based on her recent work adding Apple Pay support to perk itemization at Indiegogo, Julia Nguyen will be talking about accounting for technical debt in feature work and best practices in refactoring front-end APIs. She will delve into serializer design, decorator pattern, and architecting client-side services. Technical debt, though ill-fated, is accrued when we lack the responsibility to keep codebases as clean as possible. The more time we dedicate to tackling technical debt in new projects, the cleaner the codebase becomes. It’s important to develop best practices for tackling technical debt and refactor work incrementally.