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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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Enabling Evolutionary Architecture through the Preservation of Change Locality
Why do simple features suddenly require cross-team negotiations? In this article, explore how boundary drift quietly destroys change locality and increases cognitive load across teams. Learn practical sociotechnical strategies - redistributing mechanics, exposing essential policy, and rehearsing exception paths - to restore domain boundaries and enable a truly evolutionary software architecture.
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The Hard-Stop Rule: from 3 HCM Monoliths to 120 Domain Microservices
A payroll and HR software team rebuilt three monoliths into over 120 smaller services over five years, with no dedicated migration budget. Every new feature was built as its own service instead of changing the old ones. The article covers the pull-based migration, the tools that made this possible, how costs were kept down, and the problems the team ran into along the way.
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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 Technology Adoption Curve, Twenty Years On
Today, June 8th, InfoQ celebrates 20 years. This is not a comprehensive history, but a deliberately selective look at the technologies and practices InfoQ identified early, where they sit on the adoption curve in 2026, and how that curve may evolve over the next five to ten years.
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Three Pillars of Platform Engineering: a Virtuous Cycle
Platform engineering succeeds when reliability and ergonomics reinforce each other rather than compete. This article explores three foundational pillars: automated reliability, developer ergonomics, and operator ergonomics. Together, they establish a virtuous cycle that strengthens system stability, reduces operational burden, and empowers teams to scale infrastructure with confidence.
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A Better Alternative to Reducing CI Regression Test Suite Sizes
How can you focus in a sea of results from a large regression test suite? This article describes a stochastic approach that relies on some degree of redundancy in your CI regression test set. This approach does not guarantee you will catch every bug every time, but it gives you your best bet of not missing the subtle signatures of all the bugs uncovered by your CI regression test suite runs.
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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking: Lessons from What Works and What Hurts
Event-driven architecture helps banks decouple systems, scale services, and create clear activity trails. But it also introduces complexity, new failure modes, and operational challenges. Chris Tacey-Green explains where it adds value in banking systems and the practical patterns, such as inbox/outbox and stable event contracts, needed to make it reliable.
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Configuration as a Control Plane: Designing for Safety and Reliability at Scale
Configuration has evolved from static deployment files into a live control plane that directly shapes system behavior. The evolution of configuration management highlights why misconfigurations can trigger large outages and how hyperscalers deploy changes safely using staged rollouts, validation, blast radius limits, and automated rollback at scale.