A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect.
View an example
We protect your privacy.
Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development
Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources.
Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.
Agentic AI architecture extends microservices and cloud-native architectures with AI agents that work with context, memory, and protocols such as MCP and A2A. The article covers bounded-context integration, task-dependent coordination strategies, new security risks, and observability needs. It expects gradual adoption alongside existing architectures, with platforms absorbing common components.
Hannes Hapke shares how Dataiku’s open-source Kiji Inspector applies Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) directly to decision tokens to expose why agents pick specific tools. Moving past superficial chain-of-thought narratives, he discusses causal ablation, layer activation extraction via patched vLLM engines, and production monitoring workflows for software architects and senior engineering leaders.
Vanessa Formicola shares how technical leaders can move beyond "wishful architecture" by practicing holistic socio-technical engineering. She discusses why engineering leaders must account for organizational maturity, reward structures, geopolitical climate, and team dynamics, framing the staff-plus role as designing the conditions for technology to thrive rather than just picking tools.
Oli Lane and Julian Wreford share how Gearset replaced guesswork in distributed asynchronous queues with OpenTelemetry tracing. They explain why traditional metrics fall short, how to implement user-centric SLOs based on latency distributions, and share practical debugging tips to help senior developers, software architects, and engineering leaders improve system reliability and team culture.
AI Engineering Certification
Work through your production AI decisions with senior engineers from other companies. Apply their perspectives to challenges from your own work.Online. Register Now.
Building RAG pipelines or AI agents? Work through retrieval, context, evals, and reliability decisions with experienced practitioners.Online. Register Now.
High-Performing Teams Certification
Compare team design, delivery flow, AI roles, and metrics with experienced practitioners. Online. Register Now.
Architect Certification
Distributed systems, decentralized decisions, platform engineering, and AI architecture. Online. Register Now.
QCon San Francisco
What's working across AI, architecture, and leadership, from the teams doing it. Register. Early bird ends Nov 10.
QCon AI New York
Production AI across agents, context, evals, security, and infrastructure, from the senior engineers building it.Register. Early bird ends Nov 10.
QCon London
What early-adopter teams have proven in production, across 15 engineering tracks. Register. Early bird ends Nov 10.
QCon AI Boston
Learn from the decisions and trade-offs behind AI systems already running in production.Registration open.
InfoQ Homepage AI coding agents Content on InfoQ
/articles/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2026/en/smallimage/the-infoq-trends-report-500x500-logo-1792658101354.jpeg){kind=logo}
/articles/ai-agents-improve-software-architecture/en/smallimage/ai-agents-improve-software-architecture-thumbnail-1790153650841.jpg)