Resources
Understand the category.
Dark code and drift are not yet industry-standard terms. The failure modes they describe are universal, but the vocabulary is still being established. These resources define the terms and the architectural commitments SolarNorth is built on.
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What is dark code?
Production logic that runs, affects outcomes, and is no longer understood, documented, or owned by anyone currently accountable. A category definition.
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What is drift?
The gradual deviation of a running system from its specified scope through changes that are individually reasonable and collectively corrosive.
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Read-only by design
The architectural decision never to have write access, why this matters for liability, and why most observability tooling chooses otherwise.
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In development.
01
The SolarNorth Method, full whitepaper
Coming
02
Defensibility and the modern CISO
Coming
03
Drift as a compliance artifact: a practitioner's reference
Coming
04
Single-tenant by default: the architectural argument
Coming