Tech Debt: The Silent Killer That Will Break Your Startup in 2026

## The Illusion of Speed
"Let's launch fast and fix it later", say 99% of CTOs in pre-seed stage. The reality? "Later" never comes. The code becomes an untouchable monster and maintenance costs swallow your entire engineering budget.

### Symptoms your infrastructure is in a coma:
1. **Features that took 2 days now take 2 weeks.**
2. **The team is afraid to deploy on Fridays** (or any day).
3. **Bizarre bugs** in untouched features.
4. **Burnout** from putting out fires 24/7.

### The Real Cost of Sustaining Garbage Code
Investors analyze code before Series A (Tech Due Diligence). A legacy, poorly scalable, and coupled architecture instantly melts your company's Valuation.

### How RET Tecnologia Executes the "Rescue"
We don't rewrite blindly. We apply the **Strangler Fig Pattern**:
- Decouple monoliths into microservices/serverless.
- Deploy military CI/CD (deploy without fear).
- Create automated test coverage for critical points.

**Scalability is not a luxury. It's oxygen. Without it, you die on the beach.**