How to Resolve Static Analysis Warnings for Always-False Conditions and Unreachable Branches
IN-COM October 20, 2026 COBOL Posts, Code Analysis, Code Review, Compliance, Developers, Impact Analysis, Legacy Systems, Tech TalkYour static analyzer has flagged a condition as always false. The warning looks like one of these, depending on your...
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Blast Radius Analysis: Estimating the Cost of a Bad Deploy
IN-COM October 12, 2026 Applications, Code Review, Compliance, Industries, Tech TalkA 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
IN-COM October 6, 2026 Industries, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Tech TalkThe architecture diagram on the SharePoint page was created in 2009. It was accurate then, it reflected the system as...
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Modernization Failure Post-Mortems: Common Root Causes
IN-COM September 21, 2026 Application Modernization, Data Modernization, Enterprise Modernization, Information Technology, Legacy Systems, Tech TalkBetween 70 and 79 percent of legacy modernization projects fail to meet their stated goals. That statistic appears in every...
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Schema Drift Detection Across Distributed Data Systems
IN-COM September 11, 2026 Compliance, Data, Developers, Legacy Systems, Tech TalkThe analytics dashboard was correct on Tuesday. By Thursday it showed a 23 percent drop in customer acquisition that the...
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Portfolio Rationalization After Mergers and Acquisitions
IN-COM September 9, 2026 Application Management, COBOL Posts, Impact Analysis, Information Technology, Refactoring, Tech TalkThe target company’s billing system was flagged as redundant in week three of the integration workstream. The acquirer had its...
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