SonarQube at Scale: A Code Quality Playbook

How we rolled out static analysis gates without slowing the team down.

Rolling out strict quality gates on a codebase with years of accumulated debt will grind a team to a halt if you are not careful.

We scoped gates to new and changed code only, using a baseline snapshot, so teams were never blocked by pre-existing issues outside their PR.

Presenting the rollout plan to leadership with clear before/after metrics made the case for continued investment much easier.

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