Newsletter Dispatch Asset: Essay 18

Subject: Architectural Debt in the LMS: Why dynamic feeds break compliance

Hey team,

Broken links in an online course are annoying, but the unseen damage is far worse: configuration drift.

When instructional designers embed external feeds or unversioned links into course modules, they introduce a point of failure that bypasses version control and audit trails. When a source changes or drops, teams spend hours manually hunting down and patching broken URLs across dozens of shells.

In Essay 18: The Illusion of the Feed, I explore how treating your curriculum like version-controlled software (Curriculum-as-Code) and establishing an upstream Single Source of Truth (SSoT) permanently eliminates link rot before it ever reaches students.

Read the full essay here: alanpruitt.com/articles/18-the-illusion-of-the-feed.html

Best, Alan