Breaking Free from Hardcoded Values

Breaking Free from Hardcoded Values: Smarter Strategies for Modern Software

IN-COM June 3, 2026 , ,

Hardcoded values look like shortcuts. A developer needs a database URL, types it directly into a connection string, and moves...

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Top COBOL Modernization Vendors

Top COBOL Modernization Vendors: Services, Tools, and Strategies Compared

IN-COM May 28, 2026 , , , , , , , ,

COBOL still runs an estimated 95% of ATM transactions, 80% of in-person point-of-sale transactions, and the core processing logic of...

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Migrating Legacy Asynchronous Code to Async/Await

Migrating Legacy Asynchronous Code to Async/Await Without Breaking Productionv

IN-COM May 27, 2026 , , , ,

JavaScript’s callback model was the only mechanism for non-blocking I/O when Node.js appeared in 2009. By the time Promises landed...

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Error Handling Best Practices

Software Error Handling: How to Classify, Log, and Recover from Errors in Production Systems

IN-COM May 26, 2026 , , ,

Error handling is not a feature you add after the system works. It is a design decision that determines how...

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Zero-Downtime Refactoring

Zero-Downtime Refactoring: How to Refactor Systems Without Taking Them Offline

IN-COM May 21, 2026 , , , ,

Production systems are not allowed to stop. The financial platform processing transactions at 2 AM, the healthcare records system serving...

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Trace a Data Field Across an Entire Enterprise System

How to Trace a Data Field Across an Entire Enterprise System

IN-COM May 13, 2026 , ,

A data field is one of the smallest units of meaning in a software system, and yet tracing it across...

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