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Tech Leads are responsible for managing technical aspects of software development flow in a specific context or team. The role has a considerably high intersection with architects, which is responsible for the whole system, not single applications. Technical Debt is a simple metric that can help tech leads to keep it healthy. The number of technical debts is crucial to keep tech leads in the right direction. Technical debt is very hard to control, though teams must trade quality for time, and the number of tech debts rises.