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      <title>Edition 27: The Post-Close 100-Day Tech-Value Plan</title>
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      <description>Turning diligence findings into a sequenced, owned 100-day plan that reduces priced-in risk and builds the value thesis</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 26: People Risk and Succession Planning</title>
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      <description>Critical-role mapping, vesting cliffs, succession depth, and executive ownership as people-risk signals in diligence</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 25: Performance Engineering &amp; Load Testing</title>
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      <description>Realistic load testing versus synthetic benchmarks, bottleneck discovery, and capacity modelling as scalability signals</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 24: Observability &amp; Monitoring Excellence</title>
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      <description>Observability stack, monitoring practices, and operational alerting maturity</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 23: Multi-Tenant Architecture Assessment</title>
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      <description>Multi-tenant architecture patterns, tenant isolation strategies, and scalability assessment</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 22: Tech Governance for Hypergrowth</title>
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      <description>Technology governance frameworks for rapidly scaling organisations</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 21: Infrastructure as Code &amp; GitOps</title>
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      <description>Infrastructure-as-code practices and GitOps workflows as engineering maturity signals</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 20: Product-Tech Fit</title>
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      <description>Alignment between product strategy and technical capability as an investment signal</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 19: Quality Assurance &amp; Testing Maturity</title>
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      <description>QA processes, test coverage, and testing maturity as due diligence signals</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 18: Year-End Wrap-up for 2025</title>
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      <description>2025 year-end review of the Tech Due Diligence Playbook series</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 17: Database Architecture &amp; Data Strategy</title>
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      <description>Database architecture choices and data strategy for scalable, maintainable platforms</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 16: DevSecOps Maturity &amp; Shift-Left Security</title>
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      <description>DevSecOps practices, shift-left security integration, and CI/CD pipeline security maturity</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 15: Platform Architecture Assessment</title>
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      <description>Platform architecture review: modularity, coupling, extensibility, and scalability</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 14: Cloud Strategy &amp; Deployment Models</title>
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      <description>Cloud provider strategy, multi-cloud options, and deployment model evaluation</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 13: Business-Continuity &amp; Resilience Stress-Test</title>
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      <description>Business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and platform resilience under stress</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 12: API Strategy &amp; Integration Readiness</title>
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      <description>API design quality, integration architecture, and partner ecosystem readiness</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 11: The People Lens</title>
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      <description>Engineering team quality, leadership capacity, culture, and key-person risk in Technical Due Diligence</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 10: Data Governance &amp; Sovereign-Data Readiness</title>
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      <description>Data governance frameworks, data sovereignty obligations, and regulatory compliance readiness</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 9: Vendor Due Diligence &amp; Third-Party Risk</title>
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      <description>Vendor and third-party dependency assessment and supply chain risk in Technical Due Diligence</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 8: Security &amp; Compliance in the AI Act Era</title>
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      <description>Security posture and compliance readiness under the EU AI Act and related regulation</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 7: Build vs. Buy: Innovation or Lock-In?</title>
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      <description>Evaluating build vs buy decisions: innovation potential versus vendor dependency risk</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 6: Incident Response and the Culture Behind the Numbers</title>
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      <description>Incident response maturity and engineering culture as due diligence signals</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 5: Scaling Without Bleeding Cash</title>
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      <description>Cloud cost analysis, FinOps practices, and spend optimisation as due diligence signals</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 4: Debt or Deal-Breaker?</title>
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      <description>Technical debt identification, classification, and its impact on deal valuation</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 3: The Metrics That Matter</title>
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      <description>Key deployment, incident, and cost signals that predict platform scalability</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 2: One Size Never Fits All</title>
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      <description>Right-sizing Technical Due Diligence scope by transaction type: minority stake, majority buyout, and carve-out</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Edition 1: Deal-Maker, Not Checkbox</title>
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      <description>The purpose of Technical Due Diligence and using a risk register as a deal-making tool</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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