{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/3/timelines-are-compressing-and-the-same-pressure-gives", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 3, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/3/timelines-are-compressing-and-the-same-pressure-gives", "kind": "update", "summary": "Timelines are compressing, and the same pressure gives opposite outcomes depending on what the team practises", "details": ["A $950M business on a well maintained monolith, one architecture and one language continuously invested in, has good margins.", "A devtool company on mixed technologies and microservices needs an army of engineers to keep the lights on and is barely profitable.", "Each new leader adds a layer every 2-4 years. After a decade the development history shows old technologies left in place and the system is delicate."], "links": [], "tags": ["architecture", "due-diligence", "m-and-a", "tech-debt"], "happened_on": "2026-04-17", "created": "2026-09-27T13:15:32.718553Z", "edited": "2026-09-27T13:58:42.485020Z"}}