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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Managing Memory Leaks in Programming

Memory Leaks in Programming: Understanding Causes, Detection, and Prevention

IN-COM June 1, 2026 , , , ,

Memory leaks are one of the most consequential defects in software engineering. Unlike crashes that halt execution immediately, a memory...

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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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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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Text Search vs Code Understanding

Why Text Search is Not the Same as Code Understanding

IN-COM May 18, 2026 , , ,

A developer opens a large legacy codebase for the first time. They need to understand what happens to a customer...

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