Exhibitor and sponsored speaking slots are available. Email sales@boston.qcon.ai for more details.

The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

As a B2B marketer, it’s important to stay abreast of the ever-evolving technology landscape, software development trends, and organizational practices. The 2025 InfoQ Trends Reports eMag not only highlights key software trends from the past year, it also provides a lens through which you can plan your 2026 marketing and product roadmaps.

Gain insights into AI’s impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what 2026 may bring.

Read the full report

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Java State of the Union: InfoQ Trends Report December 2025

The InfoQ December 2025 Java Trends Report highlights key shifts in the Java ecosystem for 2026.

AI on the JVM is gaining momentum, with frameworks like Embabel, Koog, Spring AI, and LangChain4j accelerating AI-native and AI-assisted development in Java. Java 25 sets a modern LTS baseline, improving readability, concurrency, and performance, as frameworks increasingly standardize on Java 17+.

Modernization is surging as organizations update legacy applications, with OpenRewrite becoming the dominant automation tool. Enterprise Java continues to advance through broad adoption of Jakarta EE 11 and early progress on Jakarta EE 12, while community engagement grows and enterprises explore more hybrid, regional, and on-prem deployment models.

Read the full report

20th Anniversary: QCon London 2026 (March 16-18); Sponsorships Still Available

Entering its 20th year, QCon London is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.

Some of this year’s QCon London track themes include:

• Architecture in the Age of AI, hosted by Fabiane Nardon, Java Champion & Data Platform Director @totvs

• Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Co-Author of "Mastering API Architecture", Java Champion, and InfoQ News Manager

• AI Engineering, hosted by Hien Luu, Sr. Engineering Manager at Zoox & Author of ‘MLOps with Ray’

• Debugging Distributed Systems, hosted by Liz Fong-Jones, Technical Fellow at honeycomb.io, Developer Advocate

• Modern Data Engineering & Architectures, hosted by Sid Anand, Fellow, Cloud & Data Platform at Walmart, Apache Airflow Committer/PMC, Ex-Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, Etsy, & PayPal

• Software Security & Risk Management, hosted by Chris Swan, Engineer at atsigncompany

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are still available for QCon London 2026. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: AI-Era Insights for Modern Architects

InfoQ has partnered with renowned book author Shweta Vohra to create an exclusive InfoQ eMag and five-part article series, “Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights & Patterns for the AI Era,” which will explore how today’s architects are rethinking system design, platforms, APIs, and delivery in an AI-driven world.

Sponsorship is now open for the eMag and article series - publishing late Q1/early Q2- offering a lead-gen and brand awareness program aligned with a high-value topic shaping modern software architecture.

Email sales@c4media.com for more details.

Top InfoQ Webinar Topics of 2025; Available 2026 Dates

Investing in the right content and topics is critical to the success of your marketing strategy. As you begin planning your 2026 webinar calendar - to help inspire you - we’ve assembled a list of the Top 5 InfoQ Webinars from 2025. These webinars garnered the highest registration numbers and engagement from our readers:

• Design Patterns for Agentic AI: Building Scalable, Event-Driven Systems

• Architecting Payment Systems for Real-time Performance

• How to Build Reliable GenAI Systems: Architectures, APIs, and Guardrails

• Architecting the AI-Powered IDP: A Blueprint for Intelligent Developer Platforms

• Enterprise Agentic Architecture: Performance, Cost, and Safety in Production

2026 dates for InfoQ sponsored webinars and InfoQ Live Roundtables are booking fast. Currently available dates include:

InfoQ Webinars 2026

• August 6

• October 8, 29

• November 19

InfoQ Live Roundtables 2026

• June 23

• September 22

Email sales@c4media.com to secure your 2026 dates.

InfoQ Top 10 Content of 2025

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past year, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in 2025, based on page views:

1. Figma’s $300,000 Daily AWS Bill Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks

2. OpenAI’s GPT-5 Now Generally Available on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

3. Atlassian’s 4 Million PostgreSQL Database Migration: When Standard Cloud Strategies Fail

4. xAI Releases Grok Code Fast 1, a New Model for Agentic Coding

5. Hugging Face Releases FinePDFs: a 3-Trillion-Token Dataset Built from PDFs

6. Google has launched LangExtract, a Python Library for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text

7. The Void IDE, Open-Source Alternative to Cursor, Released in Beta

8. Uber Completes Massive Kubernetes Migration for Microservices and Large-Scale Compute Workloads

9. InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - 2025

10. AGENTS.md Emerges as Open Standard for AI Coding Agents
    

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Top AI Trends for 2025: What B2B Marketers Need to Know

InfoQ’s 2025 AI Trends Report identifies Physical AI as the next frontier, moving AI from digital tasks into the real world, while Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) sees widespread enterprise adoption.

AI is shifting from assistant to co-creator, with entire applications developed, tested, and deployed alongside AI. AI-driven DevOps is automating coding, deployment, and operations.

Human-centered design is key. Standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) improve interoperability, but AI must align with real human needs to enhance daily life and work.

This report offers key insights to help B2B marketers align messaging with evolving technical priorities.

Read the full report

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QCon London 2026 (March 16-18) -Track Topics Confirmed

Entering its 20th year, QCon London is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.

Some of next year’s QCon London track themes include:

• AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights

• Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

• Modern Data Architectures

• Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

• Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

See the complete list or provisional topics

Sponsorships are still available for QCon London 2026. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Case Studies

Developer Advocacy: Building Trust, Measuring Impact, and Adapting to AI

Developer advocacy has grown from a community movement into a strategic role bridging engineering, product, and marketing. InfoQ spoke with Mary Thengvall about measuring impact, scaling engagement authentically, and how AI is reshaping developer learning and tools.

Read the full case study

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q3 2025

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q3 2025, based on page views:

1. Figma’s $300,000 Daily AWS Bill Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks

2. Atlassian’s 4 Million PostgreSQL Database Migration: When Standard Cloud Strategies Fail

3. xAI Releases Grok Code Fast 1, a New Model for Agentic Coding

4. Hugging Face Releases FinePDFs: a 3-Trillion-Token Dataset Built from PDFs

5. OpenAI’s GPT-5 Now Generally Available on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

6. Google Launched LangExtract, a Python Library for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text

7. AGENTS.md Emerges as Open Standard for AI Coding Agents

8. Agentic AI Architecture Framework for Enterprises

9. Beyond Vibe Coding: Amazon Introduces Kiro, the Spec-Driven Agentic AI IDE

10. Kubernetes 1.34 Released with KYAML, Traffic Routing Controls, and Improved Observability

Exhibitor and sponsored speaking slots are available. Email sales@qcon.ai for more details.

The InfoQ 2025 Technology Adoption Report

The latest InfoQ Technology Adoption Report reveals several recurring technical challenges that are top of mind for senior software engineers, architects, and technical leaders in 2025. Based on insights from 191 survey respondents, the report spotlights key themes shaping the landscape — including legacy modernization, technical debt, AI integration, scalability, and cost management.

While cloud-based AI platforms are becoming the norm, many teams still struggle with the skills, tools, and processes needed to make AI work in the real world. Core cloud-native technologies like containers and microservices are widely adopted, but newer, more complex tools are seeing slower uptake. Across the board, teams are balancing the need to innovate quickly with the realities of cost control, system complexity, and a constant need to learn and adapt.

Read the full report

QCon San Francisco 2025 (November 17-19) -Track Topics Announced

Entering its 19th year, QCon San Francisco is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.

Some of this year’s QConSF track themes include:

• Generative AI in Production & Advancements

• Getting Started in Machine Learning

• Modern Data Architectures

• Architectural Evolution

• Programming Languages and Paradigms for the Next Decade

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are still available for QCon San Francisco 2025. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Case Studies

Maximizing Demand Generation with O’Reilly Content on InfoQ

DoiT, a cloud optimization and engineering solutions provider, sought to enhance its demand generation efforts by leveraging high-value technical content. Partnering with O’Reilly and distributing content through InfoQ enabled DoiT to attract highly qualified leads, engage senior software influencers, and position itself as a thought leader in the industry.

Read the full case study

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q1 2025

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q1 2025, based on page views:

1. Node.js 23.6 Now Runs TypeScript Natively

2. SharePoint Framework 1.21 Adds Minor Updates for UI Components

3. Farewell to Build Scripts as Docker Bake Goes GA

4. JDK 24 and JDK 25: What We Know So Far

5. DeepSeek Release Another Open-Source AI Model, Janus Pro

6. Amazon Bedrock Introduces Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) with Open Source Framework Integration

7. Java 24 Delivers New Experimental and Many Final Features

8. The End of the Bronze Age: Rethinking the Medallion Architecture

9. Meta Introduces LLM-Powered Tool for Software Testing

10. Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code!
    

Exhibitor and sponsored speaking slots are available. Email sales@devsummit.infoq.com for more details.

The InfoQ Trends Reports 2024 eMag

As a B2B marketer, it’s important to stay abreast of the ever-evolving technology landscape, software development trends, and organizational practices. The 2024 InfoQ Trends Reports eMag not only highlights key software trends from the past year, it also provides a lens through which you can plan your 2025 marketing and product roadmaps.

Gain insights into topics such as cell-based architectures, working within socio-technical systems, large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs), and the state-of-the-art within the Java ecosystem.

Read the full report

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Java State of the Union: InfoQ Trends Report December 2024

The InfoQ December 2024 Java Trends Report highlights key shifts in the Java ecosystem for 2025. Java 17 leads JDK adoption, but usage remains fragmented, with Java 11 and Java 8 close behind, and Java 21 showing faster, though still modest, growth.

Java has shed its legacy image, embracing innovation with WebAssembly adoption catching up to Go and Rust. The AI surge of early 2024 has given way to more focused, practical applications. Meanwhile, the new Commonhaus Foundation supports open-source Java projects with succession planning and funding, signaling a dynamic and sustainable future for Java.

Read the full report

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QCon London 2024 (April 7-9) Sponsorships Still Available

Entering its 19th year, QCon London is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.

Some of this year’s QCon London track themes include:

• Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures, hosted by Dio Rettori, Multi-Cloud Strategy and Product @JPMorgan Chase & Co.

• Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Co-Author of "Mastering API Architecture", Java Champion, and InfoQ News Manager

• AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights, hosted by Hien Luu, Sr. Engineering Manager @Zoox & Author of MLOps with Ray

• Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About, hosted by Ian Thomas, Software Engineer @Meta

• Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats, hosted by Sonya Moisset Staff Security Advocate @Snyk

• Modern Data Architectures, hosted by Fabiane Nardon, Data Expert, Java Champion & Data Platform Director @totvs

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are still available for QCon London 2025. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Case Studies

The Future of AI in 2025: Expert Perspectives from Srini Penchikala

In this interview, InfoQ Editor Srini Penchikala offers an insider's view of AI's horizon in 2025. He sees Small Language Models democratizing AI, making powerful technologies more accessible and privacy-friendly and believes that AI Agents will emerge as game-changers, potentially automating complex workflows with unprecedented intelligence. Penchikala also envisions specialized databases and domain-specific solutions transforming how businesses leverage AI, and urges marketers to showcase practical, impactful applications that solve real-world challenges.

Read the full interview

Top InfoQ Webinar Topics of 2024; Available 2025 Dates

Investing in the right content and topics is critical to the success of your marketing strategy. As you begin planning your 2025 webinar calendar - to help inspire you - we’ve assembled a list of the Top 5 InfoQ Webinars from 2024. These webinars garnered the highest registrations numbers and engagement from our readers:

• Architecture Recipes for AI-Powered Applications

• Modernizing Payment Processing Architectures

• The Architect’s Guide to Elasticity

• Deep Dive into the Architecture of an Indexing Engine

• Architecting Scalable Feature Flagging Systems

2025 dates for InfoQ sponsored webinars and InfoQ Live Roundtables are booking fast. Currently available dates include:

InfoQ Webinars 2025

• April 10

• May 22

• June 12, 26

• July 17

• August 7, 28

• September 18

• October 9, 30

• November 13

• December 11

InfoQ Live Roundtables 2025

• January 21 - Sold

• April 22 - Sold

• June 24 - Sold

• August 19 - Available

• November 11 - Available

Email sales@c4media.com to secure your 2025 dates.

InfoQ Top 10 Content of 2024

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past year, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in 2024, based on page views:

1. How Netflix Really Uses Java

2. Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annuall

3. The One Billion Row Challenge Shows That Java Can Process a One Billion Rows File in Two Seconds

4. AWS Lambda Introduces a Visual Studio Code-Based Editor with Advanced Features and AI Integration

5. Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database

6. Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3

7. InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2024

8. Microsoft Launches Azure Confidential VMs with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs for Enhanced Secure Workloads

9. Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study

10. GitHub Delivers Copilot Enterprise for Large Organizations
    

• QCon London 2025 tracks announced, sponsorships now open

• InfoQ Dev Summit Boston dates confirmed: June 9-10, 2025

• InfoQ Dev Summit Munich dates confirmed: Oct 15-16, 2025

• 2025 InfoQ Live Roundtable and 2025 Webinar dates available

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AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report - September 2024

The InfoQ Trends Reports provide readers with a high-level overview of key topics, while helping the InfoQ editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Highlights from the September 2024 “AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report” include:

• The future of AI is open and accessible. We’re in the age of LLM and foundation models. Most of the models available are closed source, but companies like Meta are trying to shift the trend toward open-source models.

• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) will become more important especially for applicable use cases of LLMs at scale.

• AI-powered hardware will get much more attention with AI-enabled GPU infrastructure and AI-powered PCs.

• Due to the constraints in infrastructure setup and management costs of LLMs, small language models (SLMs) will see more exploration and adoption.

• AI Agents, like coding assistants, will also see more adoption, especially in corporate application development settings.

• AI safety and security will continue to be important in the overall management lifecycle of language models. Self-hosted models and open-source LLM solutions can help improve the AI security posture.

• Another important aspect of the LLM lifecycle is LangOps or LLMOps, which help support the models after deploying them to production.

Read the full report

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QCon London 2025 (April 7-9) Tracks Announced; Sponsorships Available

Tracks for QCon London 2025 (April 7-9) have been published. Some of the new track themes include:

• AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights, hosted by Hien Luu, Sr. Engineering Manager @Zoox & Author of MLOps with Ray

• Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Platform Engineer, Co-Author of "Mastering API Architecture", Java Champion, and InfoQ News Manager

• How to be an Effective Architect in 2025, hosted by Andrew Harmel-Law, Technical Principal @Thoughtworks, Author of Facilitating Software Architecture

• Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience, hosted by Blanca Rojo, Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Engineer @UBS

• Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

See the complete list of track abstracts

Sponsorships are available for QCon London 2025. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

2025 InfoQ Webinar and InfoQ Live Roundtable Dates Now Available

By sponsoring InfoQ webinars, B2B marketers can target a highly engaged audience of senior practitioners, establish thought leadership, and generate high-quality leads from a global audience. The 60 minute format consists of a 30 minute technical presentation followed by a 30 minute Q&A, moderated by an InfoQ Editor who is also a domain expert on your topic.

2025 InfoQ Webinar Dates

• January 16

• February 6, 27

• March 20

• April 10

• May 1, 22

• June 12, 26

• July 17

• August 7, 28

• September 18

• October 9, 30

• November 13

• December 11

InfoQ Live Roundtables 2025

InfoQ Live Roundtables are online discussions hosted by InfoQ where industry experts and thought leaders gather to share their insights on specific topics related to software development and technology. The roundtables are live-streamed and allow participants to ask questions and engage in real-time discussions.

As a sponsor, your technical expert gets a ‘seat at the table’ along with fellow practitioners from the community.

2025 InfoQ Live Roundtable Dates:

• January 21 - Sold

• April 22 - Sold

• June 24

• August 19

• November 12

Email sales@c4media.com to secure your 2025 dates.

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q3 2024

The top InfoQ content from the past three months reveals key trends shaping technical decision-making. Topics include in-depth case studies on custom-built databases, Java virtual threads, and large-scale microservices. Articles covering Decathlon’s architecture process and continuous deployment at Uber provide readers with actionable insights that they can apply to their own teams and projects.

1. Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database

2. Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3

3. Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study

4. Thinking Like an Architect

5. Optimizing Continuous Deployment at Uber: Automating Microservices in Large Monorepos

6. JDK 23 and JDK 24: What We Know So Far

7. Cloudflare Introduces Advanced Load Balancing to Eliminate Hardware Dependency

8. Architectural Retrospectives: the Key to Getting Better at Architecting

9. Navigating Software Architecture at Scale: Insights from Decathlon’s Architecture Process

10. AWS Discontinues Various Services, Raising Concerns in the Community

Exhibitor and sponsored speaking slots are available. Email sales@devsummit.infoq.com for more details.

InfoQ GenAI Roundup: Top Content, Ad Campaigns, and Recent Coverage

The topics of Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning continue to dominate news headlines not only on InfoQ, but across the industry. These topics have also been pivotal to the success of a number of recent ad campaigns on InfoQ:

- The best performing sponsored asset so far this year has been HPE’s white paper “Exploring enterprise AI: An Introduction to LLMs, vector databases, and Retrieval Augmented Generation.”

- In June, Harness sponsored the InfoQ Live Roundtable “Developer Experience (DevEx) in the Age of Generative AI” which examined why the developer experience is a critical element for every engineering team and potential enhancements that AI can bring to the DevEx table.

- In July, InfoQ published the “Practical Applications of Generative AI” eMag. Sponsored by Composable Prompts, the eMag generated a record number of leads in the first two weeks

See InfoQ’s recent editorial coverage on GenAI

Top 10 AI-related content items published on InfoQ in 2024

Case Studies

Integrating AI in Software Development and the Evolution of Java: Andrew Lombardi and Joseph Ottinger

In this interview, Andrew Lombardi and Joseph Ottinger share their experiences and insights on various topics including the integration of generative AI in software development, significant advancements in the enterprise Java ecosystem, and the evolving landscape of IoT systems. They also discuss their new book, "Beginning Spring 6: From Beginner to Pro," strategies for staying ahead of emerging technologies, and advice for B2B marketers aiming to connect with software development leaders.

Read the full interview

New InfoQ eMags Available for Sponsorship: Generative AI/LLMs, Python in the Enterprise, Cell-Based Architecture

InfoQ eMags are professionally designed, downloadable collections of popular InfoQ articles covering the latest software development technologies, trends, and topics.

As a sponsor, you get a one page sponsored article placement within eMag along with a minimum of 300 world-wide leads generated via your opt-in message.

The following eMags - slated to publish in late Q3 and Q4 2024 - are currently available for sponsorship:

• Platform Engineering

• Python in the Enterprise

• Java Performance

• The 2024 End-of-Year eMag

Email sales@c4media.com to learn more about available eMag sponsorships.

QCon London 2025 (April 7-9) Program Committee Confirmed

The program committee for the 19th annual QCon London (April 7-9, 2025) has been confirmed:

• Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant and Author

• Blanca Garcia Gil - Independent Data Consultant, previously Principal Engineer on data platform @BBC

• Chris Swan - Engineer @atsigncompany, InfoQ Editor

• Eder Ignatowicz - Senior Principal Software Engineer @Red Hat, Staff Engineer @OpenShift AI, Java Champion, Speaker, Program Committee Member

• Ian Thomas - Software Engineer @Meta

• Srini Penchikala - Senior Software Architect, Lead Editor for AI/ML/Data Engineering @InfoQ

• Werner Schuster - InfoQ Editor Functional Programming, @Wolfram

Explore the QCon London 2025 Provisional Tracks

Sponsorships are now open for QCon London 2025. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q2 2024

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q2 of 2024, based on page views::

1. Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually

2. You Don’t Need a CSS Framework

3. Slack Combines ASTs with Large Language Models to Automatically Convert 80% of 15,000 Unit Tests

4. InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2024

5. Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters

6. What's New in C# 13: Enhanced Params, Performance Boosts, and New Extension Types

7. Will C++ Become a Safe Language Like Rust and Others?

8. QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months

9. Kubernetes without YAML

10. Spring Now Offers Free Access for the Spring Academy Pro Content

Exhibitor and sponsored speaking slots are available. Email sales@devsummit.infoq.com for more details.

The InfoQ Software Architecture & Design Trends Report 2024

As a B2B marketer, it’s important to stay abreast of the ever-evolving technology landscape, software development trends, and organizational practices. The InfoQ Trends Reports aims to highlight innovator and early-adopter technologies to help software leaders drive innovation at their companies. Key highlights from the April 2024 InfoQ Architecture & Design Trends report include:

• Organizations are adopting cell-based architectures that contain and isolate a set of related services. The benefits include reduced latency, increased reliability, and cost savings.

• Data continues to be a major force in architectural decisions. Complex analytical platforms and ML models are no longer considered secondary components as they shift towards core parts of transactional systems.

• With the ideas from Team Topologies spreading across the industry, architects are giving more thought to the socio-technical factors of who will build and maintain the components of a system.

Read the full report

Listen to the accompanying podcast

Case Studies

Exploring Trends in Cloud Computing: Insights from Renato Losio

InfoQ recently sat down with seasoned cloud architect, Renato Losio, to get his thoughts on the current trends and challenges in cloud computing. In addition to providing valuable reflections on the cloud technology landscape, he also provides guidance on how B2B marketers can optimize their offerings to better meet the needs of cloud professionals.

Read the full interview

New InfoQ eMags Available for Sponsorship: Generative AI/LLMs, Python in the Enterprise, Cell-Based Architecture

InfoQ eMags are professionally designed, downloadable collections of popular InfoQ articles covering the latest software development technologies, trends, and topics. Designed for busy practitioners, eMags aim to help senior software engineers, technical team leads, and architects get quickly up-to-speed on innovator and early adopter stage technologies and approaches.

As a sponsor, you get a one page sponsored article placement within eMag along with a minimum of 300 world-wide leads generated via your opt-in message.

The following eMags - slated to publish in late Q2 and Q3 2024 - are currently available for sponsorship:

• Generative Al/Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Python in the Enterprise

• Cell-based Architecture

Email sales@c4media.com to learn more about available eMag sponsorships.

QCon San Francisco 2024 (November 18-20) Tracks Announced

Entering its 18th year, QCon San Francisco is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.

Some of this year’s QCon San Francisco track themes include:

• Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About, hosted by Thomas Betts, Laureate Application Architect at Blackbaud, Lead Editor for Architecture & Design at InfoQ

• Modern Data Architectures

• Generative AI in Production & Advancements, hosted by Hien Luu, Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash & Author of Beginning Apache Spark 3

• Hardware Architectures You Need to Know, hosted by Yao Yue, Platform Engineer, Distributed System Aficionado, Founder of IOP Systems

• Programming Languages and Paradigms for the Next Decade

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are still available for QCon San Francisco 2024. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q1 2024

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q1 of 2024, based on page views::

1. How Netflix Really Uses Java

2. The One Billion Row Challenge Shows That Java Can Process a One Billion Rows File in Two Seconds

3. Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0

4. The Creators of the Atom Code Editor Open-Source Zed, Their New Rust-Based High-Performance Editor

5. AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, Their Sole Relational Database with Scaling Capacity to Zero

6. MySQL Introduces Javascript Support in Preview

7. Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures

8. Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and beyond

9. Visual Studio GitHub Copilot Extension Introduces New Features and Enhancements

10. AWS Lambda Under the Hood

Exhibitor and sponsored speaking slots are available. Email sales@devsummit.infoq.com for more details.

The InfoQ Trends Reports 2023 eMag

As a B2B marketer, it’s important to stay abreast of the ever-evolving technology landscape, software development trends, and organizational practices. The 2023 InfoQ Trends Reports eMag not only highlights key software trends from the past year, it also provides a lens through which you can plan your 2024 marketing and product roadmaps.

Gain insights into topics such as hybrid working, monoliths vs microservices vs moduliths, platform engineering, large language models (LLMs), and the state-of-the-art within the Java ecosystem.

Read the full report

Listen to the accompanying podcast

QCon London 2024 (April 8-10) Sponsorships Still Available

Entering its 18th year, QCon London is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.

Some of this year’s QCon London track themes include:

• Cloud-Native Engineering, hosted by Bilgin Ibryam, Co-author of “Kubernetes Patterns,” Principal Product Manager @Diagrid

• Platforms, People & Process; Delivering Great Developer Experiences, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Java Champion and InfoQ News Manager

• Data Engineering - Innovations and Emerging Trends, hosted by Sid Anand Chief Architect @Datazoom, Committer/PMC Apache Airflow

• Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability, hosted by Thomas Betts, Lead Editor for Architecture & Design @InfoQ

• Architectures You've Always Wondered About, hosted by Cassandra Shum, Vice President of Field Engineering @RelationalAI

• Securing Modern Software, hosted by Laura Bell Main, CEO @SafeStack

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are still available for QCon London 2024. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Case Studies

By Practitioners for Practitioners: A Look Inside the InfoQ & QCon Editorial Model - Daniel Bryant

InfoQ recently caught up with Daniel Bryant, a well-known DevRel Leader, Java Champion, and - for the past decade - a Cloud & DevOps Editor for InfoQ.com. Daniel is also InfoQ’s News Manager, where he helps to drive the site’s comprehensive coverage of key innovations and trends that professional software engineers need to know about.

Read the full interview

Top InfoQ Webinar Topics of 2023; Available 2024 Dates

Investing in the right content and topics is critical to the success of your marketing strategy. As you begin planning your 2024 webinar calendar - to help inspire you - we’ve assembled a list of the Top 5 InfoQ Webinars from 2023. These webinars garnered the highest registrations numbers and engagement from our readers:

• ChatGPT is fun, but the future is fully autonomous AI for code

• Beyond ChatGPT: Where to Start Improving Your Enterprise Search Application

• How To Build Payment Systems That Scale to Infinity title updated

• Modernizing your API and Microservices Strategy with GraphQL: Lessons Learned at Netflix, Paypal, and Expedia

• Design Patterns for Distributed Streaming Data Environments

…here are some additional webinar topics - from the last 36 months - that have also performed exceptionally well on InfoQ:

• Success in the Cloud: How to Avoid Kubernetes Deployment Pitfalls

• Fundamentals of Microservices

• What Does The JVM Garbage Collector Really Do?

• 5 Technical Lessons Learned from Outages at AWS, Google and Microsoft Kubernetes

• Ingress 101 How To Build Payment Systems That Scale to Infinity

• 7 Steps to Simplify Kubernetes Adoption

• API Gateway Use Cases for Kubernetes

2024 dates for InfoQ sponsored webinars and InfoQ Live Roundtables are booking fast. Currently available dates include:

InfoQ Webinars 2024

• March 21

• April 11

• June 13, 27

• July 25

• August 15

• September 5, 26

• October 17

• November 7, 28

• December 12

InfoQ Live Roundtables 2024

• January 25 - Sold

• April 23 - Sold

• June 25

• August 20

• November 12

Email sales@c4media.com to secure your 2024 dates.

InfoQ Top 10 Content of 2023

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past year, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in 2023, based on page views:

1. Microsoft Joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member

2. Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform

3. Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs

4. OpenAI Publishes GPT Prompt Engineering Guide

5. Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning Algorithm

6. InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2023

7. Microsoft Announces a New Azure SQL Database Free Offer in Public Preview

8. LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%

9. Uber Migrates 4000+ Microservices to a New Multi-Cloud Platform Running Kubernetes and Mesos

10. A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions

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AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report - September 2023

The InfoQ Trends Reports provide readers with a high-level overview of key topics, while helping the InfoQ editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Highlights from the September 2023 “AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report” include:

• Generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and GPT-4, has gained significant prominence in the AI and ML industry, with widespread adoption driven by technologies like ChatGPT.

• Major tech players such as Google and Meta have announced their own generative AI models, indicating the industry's commitment to advancing these technologies.

• Vector databases and embedding stores are gaining attention due to their role in enhancing observability in generative AI applications.

• Responsible and ethical AI considerations are on the rise, with calls for stricter safety measures around large language models and an emphasis on improving the lives of all people through AI.

• Modern data engineering is shifting towards decentralized and flexible approaches, with the emergence of concepts like Data Mesh, which advocates for federated data platforms partitioned across domains.

Read the full report

Listen to the accompanying podcast

Case Studies

Growth, Attribution, and AI - A Marketing Journey with Rosalind Lutsky

Rosalind Lutsky walks us through her professional journey as a B2B marketer - sharing examples of successful campaigns, marketing strategies, and key lessons learned - working at several, well-known SaaS companies. She identifies three key trends that she believes will change the marketing game: AI and its impact on SEO, attribution, and how companies define ‘growth.’

Read the full interview

QCon London 2024 (April 8-10) Tracks Announced; Sponsorships Available

Tracks for QCon London 2024 (April 8-10) have been published. Some of this year’s track themes include:

• ChatGPT, Bard, Llama, Claude: What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs), hosted by Hien Luu Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash

• Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability, hosted by Thomas Betts Lead Editor for Architecture & Design @InfoQ

• Engineering Leadership for All, hosted by Tanja Lichtensteiger Director of Product Engineering @BBC

• Data Engineering - Innovations and Emerging Trends, hosted by Sid Anand Chief Architect @Datazoom, Committer/PMC Apache Airflow

• Cloud-Native Engineering

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are available for QCon London 2024. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

2024 InfoQ Webinar and InfoQ Live Roundtable Dates Now Available

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2024 dates for InfoQ webinars and InfoQ Live Roundtables have been set.

InfoQ Webinars 2024

• January 18

• February 8, 29

• March 21

• April 11

• May 2, 23

• June 13, 27

• July 25

• August 15

• September 5, 26

• October 17

• November 7, 28

• December 12

InfoQ Live Roundtables 2024

• January 25 - Sold

• April 23

• June 25

• August 20

• November 12

Email sales@c4media.com to secure your 2024 dates.

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q3 2023

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q3 of 2023, based on page views:

1. Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform

2. LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%

3. AWS Lambda Deprecates Go Runtime

4. OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released

5. Introduction to Mojo Programming Language

6. AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses

7. Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) from Netflix

8. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Now GA to Access Bucket Like Local File System

9. Cadence 1.0: Uber Releases Its Scalable Workflow Orchestration Platform

10. JDK 21 and JDK 22: What We Know So Far

The InfoQ Trends Reports provide readers with a high-level overview of key topics, while helping the InfoQ editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Highlights from the July 2023 “DevOps and Cloud Trends Report” include:

• Cloud innovation has transitioned from a revolutionary phase to an evolutionary one, focusing on migrating and re-architecting workloads.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) may play a significant role in the domains of cloud and DevOps by addressing cognitive overload and supporting tasks like instant management, ticketing systems, and code generation.

• Major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and AWS have integrated AI into their products and services, showcasing the industry’s investment in AI technology.

• Low-code and no-code domains are impacted by AI-based and ChatGPT-like products, offering collaboration opportunities between business users and software engineering teams.

• Platform engineering is evolving toward simplification and value delivery, adopting a platform-as-a-service mindset.

Read the full report

Listen to the accompanying podcast

Marketing Trends

Stack Overflow 2023 Survey Results: How Professional Developers are Using AI Tools

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, one of the big themes emerging from the Stack Overflow 2023 developer survey was how professional developers perceive and actually use AI across the development lifecycle.  

Read the full article

Case Studies

The Art of Marketing at Early-Stage Startups: Brandon Hoe

InfoQ recently sat down with Brandon Hoe, VP of Marketing at Oxeye, to talk about some of the marketing challenges faced by software startups in the application security space. Having led four early-stage security startups himself, he emphasizes the importance of establishing market positioning, identifying your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), and developing the right messaging for your ICP.

Read the full interview

QConSF (Oct 2-6) Track Abstracts and Hosts Finalized; Few Sponsorship Spots Remain

Tracks for QConSF (Oct 2-6) have been published. Some of this year’s track themes include:

• Designing for Resilience, hosted by Javier Fernandez-Ivern Staff Software Engineer at Netflix

• Modern Data Engineering & Architectures, hosted by Sid Anand Chief Architect and Head of Engineering at Datazoom

• Platform Engineering Done Well, hosted by Daniel Bryant Independent Technical Consultant & InfoQ News Manager

• Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod, hosted by Hien Luu Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash

• Architecting for the Cloud

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Only a few sponsorships spots remain for QConSF 2023. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q2 2023

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q2 of 2023, based on page views:

1. Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs

2. Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2023

3. JEP 444: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency

4. Late Architecture with Functional Programming

5. AWS Shifts Strategy: Public GitHub Documentation to Be Retired

6. Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack

7. Dark Side of DevOps

8. Breaking down Barriers: Introducing JDK 21’s Approach to Beginner-Friendly Java Programming

9. Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2

10. AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework

The InfoQ Trends Reports provide readers with a high-level overview of key topics, while helping the InfoQ editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Highlights from the April 2023 “Architecture & Design” Trends Report include:

• Design for Portability is gaining adoption, as frameworks like Dapr focus on a cloud-native abstraction model and allow architects to separate business logic from implementation details.

• Large language models are going to have a significant impact, from helping us understand architectural trade-offs to empowering a new generation of low-code and no-code developers.

• Sustainability of software will be a major design consideration in the coming years. Work is being done to better measure and then reduce the carbon footprint of software systems.

• Decentralized apps are taking blockchain beyond cryptocurrency and NFTs, but a lack of consumer demand will make this a niche pattern.

• Architects are always looking for improvements on how to document, communicate, and understand decisions. This may be another area where large language models will play a role in the future, acting as forensic archeologists to comb through ADRs and git history.

Read the full report

Listen to the accompanying podcast

QCon New York (June 13-15) Track Abstracts and Hosts Finalized; Sponsorships Still Available

Tracks and hosts for the the 9th annual QCon New York (Jun 13-15) have been confirmed and published. This year’s track themes include:

• Modern Data Architecture and Engineering, hosted by Allen Wang, Senior Staff Engineer @DoorDash

• Connecting Distributed Systems: APIs done right, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Head of DevRel @ Ambassador Labs & InfoQ News Manager

• Next-Gen Fintech: Performance, Complexity & Privacy, hosted by Neha Sardana Vice President & Senior Developer @MorganStanley

• Optimizing Teams or Fast Flow: Surviving in the post-Agile Aftermath, hosted by Katharine Chajka Senior Product Manager @Planview Flow Methodology

• Next in Cloud Native Development, hosted by Christie Warwick (Wilson) Software Engineer @Google

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are still available QCon New York 2023. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Marketing Trends

ChatGPT is fun, but will it replace programmers (and marketers)?

While some predict widespread job losses and economic upheaval resulting from AI-powered tools like ChatGPT, many experts predict that AI will actually augment the nature of human work by automating the tedious and repetitive aspects of our jobs, allowing us to focus on more creative work.  

Read the full article

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q1 2023

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q1 of 2023, based on page views:

1. Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning Algorithm

2. Microsoft Joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member

3. AWS Publishes Reference Architecture and Implementations for Deployment Pipelines

4. Microsoft Unveils VALL-E, a Game-Changing TTS Language Model

5. Google AI Unveils Muse, a New Text-to-Image Transformer Model

6. Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Framework

7. A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions

8. A Skeptic’s Guide to Software Architecture Decisions

9. JDK 20 and JDK 21: What We Know So Far

10. Google Releases Kubernetes GitOps Observability Dashboard

The InfoQ eMag - Trends Reports 2022

The InfoQ trends reports provide a snapshot of emerging software technology and ideas. We create the reports and accompanying graphs to aid software engineers and architects in evaluating what trends may help them design and build better software. Our editorial teams also use them to help focus our content on innovator and early adopter trends.

The “2022 Trends Report” eMag is a compendium of all trends reports published this year, including:

• InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022 

• InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2022

• Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022

• DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022

• AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report—August 2022

• InfoQ .NET Trends Report 2022

• Java InfoQ Trends Report - December 2022

Download “InfoQ Trends Repot 2022” eMag

InfoQ 2022 Year In Review Podcast

Last December, InfoQ’s Lead Editors sat down to conduct their annual ‘Year in Review’ podcast, where they highlight key trends from 2022 and speculate on what 2023 might bring. Some of the key topics explored included: the benefits of architecture decision records (ADRs), the role of Staff Plus engineers, treating platforms as a product, the importance of sustainability and green IT, and the need to be deliberate with culture design.

Listen to the InfoQ 2022 Year in Review podcast

QCon New York Returns to Brooklyn (June 13-15); Sponsorships Now Open

After a three year hiatus, the 9th annual QCon New York returns to Brooklyn this summer (June 13-15, 2023). According to InfoQ Editor Abel Avram, who covered the previous event in 2019, QCon New York “wasn’t just a software conference, it was the software conference where shops like Slack, Google, Uber, and Netflix opened their doors and connected with 1200 of the world’s most innovative engineers.”

For more information on QCon New York 2023 sponsorship opportunities, please email sales@c4media.com

QCon London (March 27-29) Track Abstracts Finalized; Sponsorships Still Available

Track abstracts and hosts for the the 17th annual QCon London (March 27-29) have been confirmed and published. Some of this year’s track themes include:

• Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About - The biggest software systems on the planet need sophisticated architectures, deliberately and carefully designed to support true planet-scale, along with high availability, durability, security, and many other concerns. (Hosted by Matt Turner, Software Engineer @Tetrateio and Co-Founder for Istio London)

• Performance: Designing and Tuning - Getting the most out of hardware is important to save money on cloud workloads and also for sustainability. In this track, we'll look at ways to design software to make the most of modern CPU and memory architectures, as well as tools and techniques to find performance bottlenecks. (Hosted by Justin Cormack, CTO @Docker)

• Building Security in Earlier - Presentations on how 'shift left' has been applied in practice to build security into applications and services earlier in their release to the production pipeline. (Hosted by Stefania Chaplin, Solutions Architect @GitLab)

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Sponsorships are still available QCon London 2023. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Marketing Trends

'Developer Marketing Does Not Exist': Adam DuVander

InfoQ recently sat down with Adam DuVander, author of the book “Developer Marketing Does Not Exist,” which teaches marketers how to authentically engage with developers as a way of attracting them to a particular product. In this interview, DuVander describes importance of cultivating the right ‘developer experience’ and why - first and foremost - it’s vital to help developers solve problems before even mentioning your product.

Read the full interview

InfoQ Top 10 Content of 2022

Whether working from home, a physical office, or both, 2022 was busy year for software development teams. To help you gauge what software development leaders were reading most about over the past year, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in 2022, based on page views:

1. Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022

2. AWS Introduces Lambda Function URLs to Simplify Serverless Deployments

3. Creating and Using HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6

4. API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?

5. Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications

6. Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL is Now Open Source and SaaS

7. Google Releases Open-Source Vulnerability Scanning Tool

8. Data Oriented Programming in Java

9. Google Trains 280 Billion Parameter AI Language Model Gopher

10. Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices

This past September, we ran the 2022 InfoQ Software Technology Adoption survey to better understand InfoQ reader demographics while also learning about the kinds of technologies and products that are on peoples’ radars. The survey generated 529 responses.

This report summarizes some of our key findings, including readers’ biggest technical challenges along with their technology adoption plans over the coming 12 months in the areas of cloud-native development/architecture, database/data engineering technologies, and software delivery.

Key Findings

• 50% of survey respondents self-identified as “Architects”, and another 26% self-identified as “Developers”

• 39% of respondents decide which technologies/software products their company will adopt

• 80% of respondents are currently building and running Microservices, with another 8% planning to within the next 12 months

• 63% of respondents are currently using Kubernetes, with another 13% planning to within the next 12 months

• 77% of respondents currently have a Monitoring / Observability solution with another 13% planning to within the next 12 months

• When asked about their biggest technical challenges, the top five, most frequent responses were related to:

  • Cloud Computing - Including cloud adoption, migrating to the cloud, cloud cost reduction, and moving to a hybrid cloud

  • DevOps - Including improving team culture, best practices, improving software delivery

  • Application Security - Including shift-left security, cloud security, Zero-Trust Security and DevSecOps

  • Observability - Including service monitoring, distributed tracing, observability of distributed systems

  • Test Automation

Read the full Report

The Core Tenets of Technical Marketing: Cody De Arkland

InfoQ recently sat down with Cody De Arkland, Head of Developer Relations at LaunchDarkly, to examine what it means to be a technical marketer and the skills required to be successful in this role.  With the advent of DevOps, he describes some of the new ‘personas’ that have emerged in software development, market trends that he’s seeing around Kubernetes, serverless, and tooling, and the importance of community-building for ISVs.  

• Read Part I - The Core Tenets of Technical Marketing

• Read Part II - Creating Content that Connects with Practitioners

AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report— August 2022

Some of the key takeaways from the recent report include:

• Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation have been promoted to the early adopters category.

• Since last year, deep learning solutions and technologies have seen wider adoption in organizations

• Streaming data analytics and technologies like Spark Streaming have moved to the late majority category.

• New entrants in the innovators category include Cloud agnostic computing for AI, Knowledge Graphs, AI pair programmer (like Github Copilot), and Synthetic Data Generation.

• New entries in the early adopters category include Robotics and Virtual Reality and related technologies (VR/AR/MR/XR) and MLOps.

Read the complete ‘AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report — August 2022’

Track Topics Confirmed for QCon London 2023

Track topics for the the 17th annual QCon London (March 27-29) have been published. While the core themes of software architecture, DevOps, and development comprise most of the technical tracks, some new track themes this year will include Effective Frontends, the Staff+ Engineer Path, and Innovations in ML Systems.

See the complete list of QCon London 2023 Tracks here

InfoQ Top 10 Content Items Published in Q3 2022

To assist you with content creation ideas and to give you a pulse on popular topics amongst our readers - each quarter - we will share a list of top viewed editorial content published on InfoQ during the previous three months. Below is a list of top viewed content from July through September of this year:

1. Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications

2. Data Oriented Programming in Java

3. Google's New Imagen AI Outperforms DALL-E on Text-to-Image Generation Benchmarks

4. Visual Studio Code Server Now Available in Private Preview

5. Java Champion James Ward on the State of Java and JVM Languages

6. The Spotify System Model: Automated Architecture Visualization at Spotify

7. The Announcement of Discontinuing Google Cloud IoT Core Service Stirs the Community and Customers

8. Stability AI Open-Sources Image Generation Model Stable Diffusion

9. Java 19 Delivers Features for Projects Loom, Panama and Amber

10. Creating and Using HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6

In his 2022 Developer Landscape report, Tyler Jewell, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, posits that the industry has reached a moment of “Peak DevOps,” where factors such as increasing software complexity, higher costs to build and maintain software systems, and lower developer job satisfaction will “seed a 3rd wave of software industrialization driven by Autonomous Software Development.”

As various functions across the software development lifecycle - such as coding, testing, and deployment - become increasingly automated through machine learning algorithms, Jewell predicts that - in the not too distant future - “coders working with IDEs” will become “model and machine learning artisans.”

From a developer marketing perspective, here are a list of key sections from the report that may be of interest.

DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022

InfoQ editors and several contributors recently got together to discuss the latest trends in the “Cloud Computing and DevOps” space, with a focus on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, various technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.

Some of the key takeaways from the report include:

• Data Observability will help organizations better understand and troubleshoot their data-intensive systems. Data Observability can help us better understand and troubleshoot our data-intensive systems.

• Serverless Databases and “Serverless as a Baseline Expectation” are becoming table stakes for cloud services being used by developers.

• FinOps practices continue to mature. Awareness of cloud spending has increased and offerings have evolved to provide better insights.

• Low- or no-code platforms continue to mature, especially for internal tooling and automation uses.

• The role of “Platform Engineer” is emerging within many sizes of organizations to support the building of related platform abstractions, APIs, and tooling.

Read the complete ‘DevOps and Cloud Trends Report - June 2022’

The Future of Tech Conferences and How to Earn Developer Trust: Anadelia Fadeev

In this interview, Anadelia Fadeev, Sr. Director of Demand Generation at Teleport, describes some of the biggest changes that have emerged in digital marketing, demand gen, and events over the course of the pandemic. She talks about the future of technical conferences, the benefits and limitations of using “marketing qualified leads” (MQLs) as a success metric, and how sales and marketing teams can best work together, using both shared goals and terminology. Finally, she emphasizes why building trust with developer audiences is paramount to all other marketing activities.

Read the full interview here

The Rise of the Staff+ Engineer

There continues to be a dearth of technical talent in the software development space. Organizations are investing more in not only retaining - but growing - their top technical brass into a relatively new kind of leadership role: the Staff+ Engineer.

While there are many variations of the role, the Staff+ Engineer typically remains very close to the technology, drives the technical direction of the product, and empowers other software engineers - and teams - to collaborate and grow within the company.

It’s also a very influential role when it comes to adopting new technologies and influencing software purchasing decisions within the organization.

Learn more about the Staff+ Engineer role how it influences software purchasing

Tracks Announced for QConSF 2022

Tracks for the the 17th annual QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-26) have been finalized and published. While the core themes of software architecture, DevOps, and development define most of the technical tracks, some new track themes this year will include the Staff+ Engineer Path, MLOps, and Green Tech.

See the complete list of QConSF 2022 Tracks here

New eMag: Native Compilation Boosts Java (Available for Sponsorship)

Java dominates enterprise applications. But in the cloud, Java is more expensive than some competitors. Native compilation with GraalVM makes Java in the cloud cheaper: It creates applications that start much faster and use less memory.

So native compilation raises many questions for all Java users: How does native Java change development? When should we switch to native Java? When should we not? And what framework should we use for native Java?

This InfoQ eMag will provide answers to these questions.

Exclusive sponsorship of this eMag is still available. Generate a minimum of 300 worldwide leads while getting your message in front of targeted audience of senior Java developers and architects. Email sales@c4media.com for sponsorship details.

InfoQ Top 10 Content Items Published in Q2 2022

To assist you with content creation ideas and to give you a pulse on popular topics amongst our readers - each quarter - we will share a list of top viewed editorial content published on InfoQ during the previous three months. Below is a list of top viewed content from April through June of this year:

1. AWS Introduces Lambda Function URLs to Simplify Serverless Deployments

2. Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL is Now Open Source and SaaS

3. Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022

4. Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is

5. Revolutionizing Java with GraalVM Native Image

6. Reducing Cognitive Load in Agile DevOps Teams Using Team Topologies

7. How Removing Staging Environments Can Improve Your Deployments

8. Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available

9. Ballerina: a Data-Oriented Programming Language

10. Design-First Approach to API Development: How to Implement and Why It Works

If you weren’t able to attend, be sure to check out the photo album and top tweets from the conference.

In our second edition of the InfoQ Partner Newsletter, we take a look at:

• The benefits and limitations of using marketing qualified leads as a campaign success metric

• The 2022 InfoQ Architecture & Design Trends report

• How to harness the power of online developer communities

• Top 10 InfoQ Content from the last three months

(Note: Our next event - QCon Plus May - is just a few weeks away. Secure one of the last sponsorships with a speaking session before next Monday, April 25th. Email sales@c4media.com for details.) 

Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) Matter, but Pipeline Matters More

According to Gartner’s Rick LaFond, while MQLs are certainly an important “leading indicator” of commercial growth, focusing purely on MQL volume can sometimes result in short-sighted marketing investments, enable “bad behaviours”, and minimize marketing’s contribution to overall revenue.

Learn about the benefits and limitations of MQLs

Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022

See how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2022, with a focus on what architects are designing for today. Some of the key takeaways from the report include:

• The practice of software architecture does not belong solely to people with the job title of architect. Every engineer can actively participate in the architecture, and architects should help facilitate that process.

• "Data plus architecture" is the idea that, more frequently, software architecture is adapting to consider data. This holistically includes data quality, data pipelines, and traceability to understand how data influenced decisions and AI models.

• One positive benefit of the pandemic and the shift to remote and hybrid work is increased asynchronous communication, which can manifest as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

Read the complete ‘Software Architecture & Design Trends Report 2022’

Check out our other, recently published InfoQ Trends Reports:

• InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022

• InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2022

The Power of Developer Communities

Online developer communities play an important role in connecting people and facilitating “free” knowledge exchange.  For software companies, they also provide an opportunity to establish thought leadership and trust with professional developers working on a particular kind of application or dealing with certain technical challenges. 

Learn how to leverage online communities to establish thought leadership, while connecting with developers.

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QCon Plus (May 10 - 20, 2022) is an online software development conference that brings together the world’s most innovative senior software engineers across multiple domains to share their real-world implementation of emerging trends and practices. 

Here are just a few of the 15 confirmed tracks:

• Effective Microservices: What It Takes to Get the Most Out of This Approach

• Building and Evolving APIs

• Modern Data Pipelines and DataMesh

• Modern Java

• Resilient Architectures

Secure one of the last sponsorships before next Monday, April 25th. Email sales@c4media.com for details. 

InfoQ Top 10 Content Items Published in Q1 2022

To assist you with content creation ideas and to give you a pulse on popular topics amongst our readers - each quarter - we will share a list of top viewed editorial content published on InfoQ during the previous three months. Below is a list of top viewed content from Jan through March of this year:

1. Google Announces Second Generation Cloud Functions

2. Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices

3. API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?

4. Java 18 is Now Available

5. Etsy Moves from React to Preact to Lower Migration Risks

6. Blockchain Node Providers and How They Work

7. The 4 Questions of a Retrospective and Why They Work

8. JDK 18 and JDK 19: What We Know So Far

9. Incorrect IAM Policy Raised Questions about AWS Access to S3 Data

10. The Next Evolution of the Database Sharding Architecture

Each quarter, we will share practical tips and insights to help you stay on top of the latest trends senior software engineers are embracing. We'll also share learnings from industry peers on their experiences with engaging a senior technical audience.  

In this edition of the InfoQ Partner Newsletter, we take a look at:

• 2021 Year in Review - An overview of key software development trends

• How you can create content for senior software engineers

• Our 2022 events calendar

• A few recent case studies

If there are others in your organization that you think might benefit from receiving this, they can sign-up at devmarketing.c4media.com.

(Note: We are sending you this email because you may have previously advertised on InfoQ.com, sponsored a QCon event, or been in contact with us. If you would like to unsubscribe to this newsletter, please click on the unsubscribe link at the end of this email)

InfoQ 2021 Year In Review: An overview of Key Software Development Trends

In a recent podcast, InfoQ editors discussed what they have seen in 2021 and speculate a little on what they hope to see in 2022. Some of the questions they discuss: Is hybrid working here to stay? What are the benefits and challenges of multi-cloud adoption? Do distributed teams help improve microservices adoption? Will AI/ML and low-code replace programmers?

InfoQ has also published the “2021 Trends Report” eMag, a compendium of four key trends reports published in 2021, including:

• Software Architecture & Design

• AI, ML, and Data Engineering

• Culture & Methods

• Devops and Cloud

Download “InfoQ Trends Repot 2021” eMag

Marketing Tips

How to Create Winning Content for Senior Software Practitioners

B2B marketers often ask us what kind of content and topics resonate best with our readers. Looking back at many of the successful advertising campaigns that have run on InfoQ.com, we have found that the most popular eBooks, white papers, blogs, and videos are those that address a key pain point or get readers up-to-speed on an important new trend or technology. Typically, these are white papers and eBooks that focus on the same topics that align with our editorial model.

InfoQ’s editorial model is focused on producing content about technologies that are in the innovator, early adopter, and early majority stages of the technology adoption curve.

In essence what we try to do is identify ideas that fit into what Geoffrey Moore referred to as the early market, where “the customer base is made up of technology enthusiasts and visionaries who are looking to get ahead of either an opportunity or a looming problem,” or technologies that we think are likely to “cross the chasm” to broader adoption.

Learn more about tailoring your content for a senior, technical audience

Case Studies

Reaching Enterprise Java Developers: Dominika Tasarz-Sochacka

Over the last eight years, Dominika Tasarz-Sochacka has been part of an exciting journey, helping her company Payara grow from a small, open source project to a full on business built around their enterprise Java platform and application server. In this interview, Tasarz-Sochacka talks about how InfoQ is helping Payara achieve its goals of driving adoption while educating a global Java audience about the platform, what it does, and how it can help them.

Read the full interview here

Building Audience and Reaching New Personas: An Interview with John Staudenraus

InfoQ recently sat down with John Staudenraus, Digital Marketing Manager at VMware Tanzu.  Tanzu – a portfolio of products for building and managing Kubernetes-applications – launched in March 2020, right around the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

John describes how he had to quickly change his approach to getting in front of his target audience and how InfoQ helped him reach his strategic personas.

He talks about the performance of his recent campaign and how InfoQ helped him not only generate a pipeline of quality leads, but also expand awareness amongst an important new audience for VMware.

Read the full interview here

Growth Marketing Insights: An Interview with Peter Zawistowicz

Gremlin’s Peter Zawistowicz is responsible for growing and optimizing the sales and marketing funnel. Some of Peter’s top priorities this past year have been to define and grow the emerging Chaos Engineering market while generating a steady stream of qualified leads for his sales team. InfoQ recently sat down with Peter to get his thoughts on how Gremlin’s first InfoQ ad campaigns have performed, as well as what products and tactics have been worked best.

Read the full interview here

Upcoming Events

We are pleased to announce our 2022 events calendar, which will consist of a combination of both virtual and in-person events:

Email sales@infoq.com to learn more about 2022 event sponsorship opportunities.

Product Highlights

Top Performing InfoQ Webinar Topics in 2021

In 2021, InfoQ Webinars collectively generated over 2,000 registrations. Are you looking for compelling webinar topic ideas for 2022? To help you, we’ve compiled a list of the top five InfoQ webinars from the past 12 months:

• Fundamentals of Microservices

• Kubernetes Ingress 101

• The Architecture of a Distributed SQL Database

• GitOps for APIs: Enterprise Microservices in the Age of Kubernetes

• Building High Performance Stateful Microservices

InfoQ webinars are moderated by technical domain experts who are also practitioners. The webinar format consists of a 30 minute presentation, followed by a 30 minute, moderator-led technical discussion. The end result is a highly engaged audience and a guaranteed list of at least 200 leads.

2022 webinar slots are booking fast! Here are the currently available 2022 webinar dates:

• July 7th

• July 28th

• August 18th

• September 8th

• October 18th

• December 13th

Email sales@infoq.com to learn more about webinar sponsorship opportunities.