The most dangerous thing in a server room is often the phrase, “Don’t touch that.”It’s usually said with a half-joke and a grimace. It refers to the old box that “still works”, runs something important, and has survived so many fixes and workarounds that nobody feels confident changing it anymore.That’s legacy debt. Not just “old tech”, but old tech that’s become a dependency. It’s the kind that quietly accumulates risk until it turns into downtime, security exposure, or an emergency upgrade at the worst possible time.A legacy debt audit is the fast way to bring that risk back into the light. What Legacy Debt Really Looks LikeLegacy debt isn’t “old gear”. It’s old gear that has become normal. It’s the server that runs a critical app, the edge device nobody remembers buying, the workaround that turned into a dependency. Over time, that debt stacks up quietly.Infinite Lambda describes legacy debt as something that
