Top Software Architecture Trends; New AI Engineering eMags; Akka’s Demand Gen Breakthrough; QConSF 2025 Tracks Confirmed

Jul 14, 2025

InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, QCon AI New York City, taking place December 16-17, 2025. This new event is designed to help organizations move beyond the hype and learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production—reliably, securely, at scale.

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

Top Trends in Software Architecture for 2025: What B2B Marketers Need to Know

InfoQ’s Software Architecture and Design Trends Report – 2025 highlights what senior architects and technical leaders are focusing on this year. Innovation is shifting from large language models to smaller, finely-tuned models and agentic AI. RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is becoming a common design consideration, and architects are assessing the impact of AI-assisted tools on both professional and citizen developers.

Sustainability efforts continue, with cloud cost reduction used as a proxy for efficiency, though renewable energy use remains complex. Teams are also adopting decentralized decision-making to reduce architectural bottlenecks.

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

Read the full report

New eMags Available for Sponsorship: Rise of the AI Engineer, Architecting for Data Sovereignty, and Team Dynamics

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 the eMag along with a minimum of 300 world-wide leads generated via your opt-in message.

The following eMags - slated to publish in Q4 2025 and early 2026 - are currently available for sponsorship:

AI-Assisted Development
Security and AI
The Rise of the AI Engineer
Architecture Through Different Lenses 2025
Architecting for Data Sovereignty
Team & Organizational Dynamics

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

QCon San Francisco 2025 (November 17-19) -Track Topics and Hosts Confirmed

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 tracks include:

AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact, hosted by Faye Zhang, Staff Software Engineer @Pinterest
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations, hosted by Janani Narayanan, Applied ML Engineer @Uber
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Co-Author of "Mastering API Architecture,” Java Champion
Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability, hosted by Vidhya Arvind, Tech Lead @Netflix
The Stories Behind the Incidents, hosted by Lorin Hochstein, Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb

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

Architecting Trust: Akka’s Demand Gen Breakthrough with InfoQ and O’Reilly

To introduce a complex new architectural concept and build brand credibility with software architects, the Akka team partnered with O'Reilly Media and InfoQ. The campaign combined O'Reilly’s technical depth with InfoQ’s reach to drive awareness, generate qualified leads, and grow long-term pipeline.

Read the full case study

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q2 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 Q2 2025, based on page views:

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