Blast Radius Analysis

Blast Radius Analysis: Estimating the Cost of a Bad Deploy

IN-COM October 12, 2026 , , , ,

A single bad deployment produced a $180,000 incident, not because the deployment was uniquely catastrophic, but because nothing in the...

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Documentation Debt: Why Diagrams Go Stale and How to Prevent It

Documentation Debt: Why Diagrams Go Stale and How to Prevent It

IN-COM October 6, 2026 , , ,

The architecture diagram on the SharePoint page was created in 2009. It was accurate then, it reflected the system as...

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Entity Relationship Diagrams from Legacy Database Schemas

Entity Relationship Diagrams from Legacy Database Schemas

IN-COM October 5, 2026 , , ,

Connect SchemaSpy to a modern PostgreSQL database and it produces a complete ERD in minutes: every table, every column, every...

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Dual-Run Strategies for Legacy Systems

Dual-Run Strategies: Running Legacy and Modern Systems in Parallel

IN-COM September 23, 2026 , , , , ,

61% of migration projects exceed planned timelines by 40 to 100%. The most common cause is not technical complexity. It...

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Diagnosing Slow CI at Enterprise Scale

Build Pipeline Bottlenecks: Diagnosing Slow CI at Enterprise Scale

IN-COM September 15, 2026 , , , ,

A developer at a large financial institution submits a pull request. The CI pipeline starts. Forty-seven minutes later, if the...

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Compliance-as-Code into Pipelines

Compliance-as-Code: Embedding Regulatory Checks into Pipelines

IN-COM September 14, 2026 , , , ,

The compliance audit used to mean a week of frantic evidence collection: pulling screenshots of configuration consoles, exporting spreadsheet snapshots...

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