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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-01T17:04:50.000Z",
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  "textContent": "There is a particular flavour of engineering dysfunction that looks, from the outside, like peak performance. Deployments are frequent. Sprint velocity is high. The feature backlog is shrinking. Leadership is pleased. And underneath all of it, the system is quietly rotting. Technical debt compounds with every rushed deployment. Observability gaps widen because nobody has time […]",
  "title": "The Velocity Trap: Why Shipping Faster Is Making Systems Worse"
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