{"slug":"resources","path":"/resources","title":"Resources — Understand the category","description":"Dark code and drift are not yet industry-standard terms. The failure modes they describe are universal, but the vocabulary is still being established.","hero":{"h1":"Understand the category.","lead":"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.","eyebrow":"Resources"},"sections":[{"id":"cards","label":"Resource cards","heading":"Available chapters","items":[{"heading":"What is dark code?","body":"Production logic that runs, affects outcomes, and is no longer understood, documented, or owned by anyone currently accountable. A category definition. (4 min read · /resources/dark-code)"},{"heading":"What is drift?","body":"The gradual deviation of a running system from its specified scope through changes that are individually reasonable and collectively corrosive. (4 min read · /resources/drift)"},{"heading":"Read-only by design","body":"The architectural decision never to have write access, why this matters for liability, and why most observability tooling chooses otherwise. (3 min read · /resources/read-only)"}],"data":{"cards":[{"slug":"dark-code","title":"What is dark code?","description":"Production logic that runs, affects outcomes, and is no longer understood, documented, or owned by anyone currently accountable. A category definition.","readTime":"4 min","href":"/resources/dark-code"},{"slug":"drift","title":"What is drift?","description":"The gradual deviation of a running system from its specified scope through changes that are individually reasonable and collectively corrosive.","readTime":"4 min","href":"/resources/drift"},{"slug":"read-only","title":"Read-only by design","description":"The architectural decision never to have write access, why this matters for liability, and why most observability tooling chooses otherwise.","readTime":"3 min","href":"/resources/read-only"}],"in_development":["The SolarNorth Method, full whitepaper","Defensibility and the modern CISO","Drift as a compliance artifact: a practitioner's reference","Single-tenant by default: the architectural argument"]}}]}