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Welcome to this special edition of The InfoQ eMag, which brings together the complete collection of our InfoQ Trends Reports for 2025. This year’s reports reflect more of an evolution in the technology landscape than last year, and the rapid revolution driven by the emergence of AI-assisted software delivery. As the hype fades, our contributors argued that there is a growing need for human judgment alongside the still-accelerating adoption of AI.
This collection does not just reflect the past year's technological trends. We aspire for you to use it as a guide for future exploration and innovation. Each report serves as a lens through which we provide an opinionated view of the world of software development and delivery. Whether you're a developer, architect, technology leader, or enthusiast, these reports offer valuable perspectives to help you plan future roadmaps and explore emerging technologies and practices over the next one, two, and five-year timeframes.
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The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag includes:
- Software Architecture and Design Trends Report 2025
This report explores how architects are adapting to a world shaped by AI. As large language models (LLMs) become commonplace, attention is turning toward small, specialized models, agentic systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as practical design patterns. Architects are now being asked to balance efficiency, quality, sustainability, and decentralized decision-making.
- Culture and Methods Trends Report 2025
This report highlights a parallel tension. AI tools are dramatically increasing development speed, yet they introduce new risks around quality, collaboration, and learning (particularly for junior developers). High-performing teams continue to depend on psychological safety, strong feedback loops, and shared ownership, which cannot easily be automated away. As agile and DevOps practices fade into the background as “the air we breathe,” platform engineering emerges as the next evolution, bringing product thinking to internal tooling while raising new organizational challenges.
- AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report 2025
In this report the focus shifts from AI as an assistant to AI as a co-creator. From agent-driven workflows and AI-enabled DevOps to emerging protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, the industry is moving toward systems in which AI is an active participant in software delivery. At the same time, contributors emphasize the importance of grounding innovation in real human needs, particularly as we look ahead to physical and embodied AI. The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.
- Cloud & DevOps Trends Report 2025
This report reflects a year of consolidation and realism. Kubernetes has firmly established itself as the stable foundation for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. At the same time, platform engineering has become a board-level concern driven by developer experience (DevEx) and productivity. FinOps continues to mature beyond budgeting toward optimization and strategic focus, especially as AI workloads push up compute costs. Across all roles, our contributors argued that cognitive load is rising, which reinforces the need for simplification, governance, and meaningful value measurement.
- Java and JVM Trends Report 2025
In this report, Java 25 establishes a clear, modern baseline, while many organizations continue to prioritize modernizing long-lived systems and older Java versions. At the same time, AI-native and AI-assisted development on the JVM is moving quickly from early experimentation toward practical adoption, supported by a growing set of frameworks and tools.
As you explore these pages, you'll encounter insights and analyses that are pivotal for understanding the current state of software development. The 2025 InfoQ Trends Reports, compiled by our expert editors and other practitioners from the software engineering community, contain a wealth of knowledge and experience.
Thank you for reading! And, as always, please send any feedback to us at editors@infoq.com or on LinkedIn, Bluesky or X.