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The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity

Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZIRP) and technical debt to epistemic and sleep debt, showing engineering leaders how to navigate shifts in assumptions, embrace sustainability, and revive proven engineering disciplines.

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Comprehension as an Architectural Characteristic: A System That Is Not Understood Cannot Evolve Safely

As AI commoditizes code output, system comprehension silently decays, creating cognitive debt that threatens safe architectural evolution. This article explores why human understanding must be treated as an essential architectural characteristic, offering actionable strategies, socio-technical metrics, and design checkpoints to preserve intent across modern engineering teams.

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Leveraging Adversary Emulation for GenAI Red Teaming

Kennedy Torkura discusses practical GenAI red teaming techniques to safeguard LLMs and knowledge bases against security threats like data poisoning and LLMjacking on AWS. He explains how engineering leaders and architects can bridge traditional cloud security with MITRE ATLAS frameworks to proactively identify vulnerabilities, implement guardrails, and secure production AI applications.

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InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2026

This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space in 2026.

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Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded

Max Korbacher explains why successful internal development platforms cannot be built on tech alone. He discusses the pitfalls of infrastructure-first thinking, the importance of a clear product mindset, and how to measure real value using DevEx and SPACE metrics. Learn how to align your team, manage tech debt, and foster a thriving community to ensure lasting platform adoption.

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VMware vFabric SQLFire Is Both an SQL Distributed Cache and a Datastore

VMware vFabric SQLFire is an in-memory distributed SQL-based cache which can work with a traditional database to persist data to disk.

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VMware vFabric SQLFire Is Both an SQL Distributed Cache and a Datastore

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Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering

From Projects to Products: Turning Platforms into Products People Use

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