Asking engineers to work with outdated code is like asking top chefs to cook with spoiled food. Late-stage startups must adopt modern dev approaches to be successful, streamline inefficiencies, remove cross-team dependencies and work faster. Focusing on thoughtful best practices helps drive performance, innovation, hiring and tech debt management.

Slack, Trulia and Yelp will share tips and best practices for paying down tech debt while investing in innovation and being attractive to talent.

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