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Why Architecture Diagrams Go Stale — And How to Fix It for Good

23 May 2026 · 9 min read

Almost every engineering team has an architecture diagram that is wrong. Not dramatically wrong — just quietly, incrementally wrong. A dependency added three sprints ago. A service decommissioned six months back still appearing on the board.

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