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Engineering

How we scan 14 million cloud resources a day without storing credentials

A deep dive into DiagramIQ's zero-persistence credential architecture and the trade-offs we made to achieve sub-5-minute discovery times at scale.

Sarah Kim · Apr 18, 2026 · 8 min read
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Product

Introducing PolicyIQ: Architecture compliance as code

Today we're launching PolicyIQ — a policy-as-code engine that validates architecture diagrams against SOC 2, ISO 27001, and custom organisational rules before anything is deployed.

Priya Sharma · Apr 10, 2026 · 5 min read
Best Practices

The architecture review problem: why most teams get it wrong

Architecture reviews are supposed to catch problems early. In practice, they're bottlenecks that happen too late and check too little. Here's how to fix that.

Marcus Rivera · Apr 3, 2026 · 11 min read
Security

Why your cloud posture management tool isn't enough

CSPM tools tell you what's wrong. They don't tell you how it got wrong, whether it matches your intended architecture, or what breaks if you fix it. That gap matters.

Jordan Lee · Mar 28, 2026 · 7 min read
Engineering

Building a real-time knowledge graph for cloud infrastructure

InsightIQ's knowledge graph connects 40+ resource types across three cloud providers into a queryable graph. This is how we built it without melting our database.

Sarah Kim · Mar 20, 2026 · 14 min read
Customer Story

How Acme Corp cut their audit prep from 6 weeks to 2 days

Acme Corp's platform team was spending six weeks every quarter preparing SOC 2 evidence. With DiagramIQ PolicyIQ and continuous compliance, they cut that to two days.

Taylor Brooks · Mar 14, 2026 · 6 min read