Key Software Trends of the Year; AI-Era Insights for Architects; Java State of the Union; Top Webinars and Content of 2025

Jan 26, 2026

InfoQ is excited to announce QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2), a two-day conference focused on how senior software leaders embed AI across the lifecycle to build secure, resilient, and innovative enterprise systems at scale.

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

Listen to the accompanying podcast

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.

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:

InfoQ Developer Marketing Newsletter (Quarterly)

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