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Ask HN: How do you handle Code compliance today?

A user on Hacker News asks the community how they currently handle code compliance, seeking insights into tools and workflows developers use to ensure their code adheres to standards and regulations.

Background

- This is an "Ask HN" — a question thread on Hacker News, a community run by Y Combinator that is highly influential among software engineers and tech leaders. - "Code compliance" here refers to software logic that enforces business or regulatory rules (tax calculations, GDPR data handling, financial trading limits). This logic is often scattered across applications, databases, and config files — making it hard to audit or update when regulations change. - The question asks what tools or practices people use to manage this: dedicated rules engines (Drools), policy-as-code frameworks (Open Policy Agent), homegrown systems, or simply embedding rules in code. - This matters because regulatory pressure is growing globally, and many engineering teams struggle to keep compliance logic separate, testable, and transparent without rebuilding solutions from scratch.

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