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Post-Quantum Cryptography in Spring Boot: Four Patterns You Can Ship This Sprint
There are four patterns that bring PQC into a Spring Boot fleet: encrypting payloads between services, locking down database fields, signing documents that need to hold up for decades, and moving service tokens off RS256. Along the way, we discuss why Harvest Now, Decrypt Later is already happening, and why none of this is production-safe until KMS or Vault is in place.
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Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs
Shift-left and DevOps have impacted how we flow changes from inception to production, but at the cost of increased cognitive load and duplication of effort across testing, security, and maintenance. This article explores the real-world challenges of rightsizing developer platforms and finding a cultural match for engineering teams who use them to reduce cognitive load and deliver change faster.
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Agentic Fitness Functions: Extending Evolutionary Architecture Beyond Deterministic Rules
Deterministic rules safeguard hard metrics, but what about architectural intent? Discover how agentic fitness functions combine AI agents and versioned rubrics to evaluate complex, judgment-heavy concerns—such as boundary fidelity, semantic contract drift, and stale ADR assumptions. Elevate evolutionary architecture governance with continuous, calibrated feedback loops.
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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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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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Runtime-Agnostic AI Workflows: a Pattern for Production Durability and Fast Eval Iteration
AI workflows have two needs that trade off directly. Running reliably in production requires persisting and distributing every step so it survives crashes, deploys, and restarts. But that same machinery is what makes runs too heavy for the fast, throwaway loop you need to check an LLM's output quality. The properties that buy durability are the ones that kill iteration speed.
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Virtual Threads after JDK 24: What Changed for Production Java
JDK 24 removed the monitor-related carrier-thread pinning that stalled Netflix and similar teams on Java 21. What has replaced it on JDK 25 LTS is downstream-resource saturation: the bottleneck moved and now demands explicit bounding in application code. This article maps the failure modes that surface after virtual-thread adoption and gives a practical sequence backed by a public benchmark.
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Securing MCP in Production: Defense-in-Depth beyond the Gateway
This article presents a defense-in-depth approach for securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments in production. It outlines four architectural control layers: safe execution, management infrastructure, outbound trust, and semantic integrity, arguing that production security requires enforcement beyond the gateway at the earliest trustworthy control points.
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An Evolutionary Architecture Pattern for Managing AI’s Pace of Change
Traditional API gateways assume deterministic services and simple schemas - assumptions agentic AI breaks. Discover why enterprise engineering leaders are adopting AI Gateways as an evolutionary architecture seam. Centralize guardrails, model routing, agent identity, action policy, and semantic audit within a single control plane to prevent costly incidents while keeping core platforms stable.
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The Self-Building Agent: a LangChain4j Experiment
The article discusses an experiment where a code assistant had to design an agentic system using LangChain4j documentation. The assistant created a coding framework capable of writing, testing, and debugging code autonomously. Results showed that two architectural patterns—supervisor and workflow—offered different trade-offs between flexibility and execution speed during debugging tasks.
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Comprehension at AI Speed: Building a Context Store for Evolutionary Architecture
AI makes the first 80% of development feel fast, but hides architectural complexity until it's too late. To prevent system instability, engineering leaders must shift from raw throughput to systemic comprehension. By unifying spec-anchored SDD, TDD, and automated fitness functions into a repo-bound "Context Store," teams can ensure AI agents and human reviewers evolve code safely.
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Beat-Aligned Mobile Audio Streaming with Virtual Chunks and Native Playback
In this article, I describe the challenges and the design of a React Native real-time mobile beat-aligned playback system for iOS and Android. The system combines personalization with low-latency, and seamless navigation and was the result of careful analysis and experimentation to address strict mobile and network constraints as well as meet user expectations.