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

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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