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Issue 92 - Next-generation architecture: From event-driven to cell-based architecture and beyond. Case Study: Beyond Trends: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Message Broker.

Issue 91 - Next-generation architecture: From event-driven to cell-based architecture and beyond. Case Study: The End of the Bronze Age: Rethinking the Medallion Architecture.

Issue 90 - Next-generation architecture: From event-driven to cell-based architecture and beyond. Case Study: Software Architecture and the Art of Experimentation.

Issue 89 - Retrospective of 2024. Case Study: Architectural Intelligence - The Next AI.

Issue 88 - The AI Shift: Evolving Roles for Software Architects. Case Study: Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype.

Issue 87 - The AI Shift: Evolving Roles for Software Architects. Case Study: InfoQ AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report—September 2024.

Issue 86 - Platform Engineering: Exploring the overlap between software architecture and platform building. Case Study: Curating Developer Experience: Practical Insights from Building a Platform Team.

Issue 85 - Platform Engineering: Exploring the overlap between software architecture and platform building. Case Study: Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering.

Issue 84 - Platform Engineering: Exploring the overlap between software architecture and platform building. Case Study: Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering.

Issue 83 - Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and Staff Plus: The Evolution of Technical Careers. Case Study: Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy.

Issue 82 - Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and Staff Plus: The Evolution of Technical Careers. Case Study: How to Build and Foster High-Performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers.

Issue 81 - Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and Staff Plus: The Evolution of Technical Careers. Case Study: Leading Tech People or Remaining a Software Engineer: A Panel Discussion.

Issue 80 - Evolution of architectures: Monolith, microservices, moduliths. Case Study: Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture.

Issue 79 - Evolution of architectures: Monolith, microservices, moduliths. Case Study: Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and Beyond.

Issue 78 - Evolution of architectures: Monolith, microservices, moduliths. Case Study: The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices.

Issue 77 - Retrospective of 2023. Case Study: Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Lessons Learned on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages.

Issue 76 - State of the art in enterprise programming languages, from Java to .NET. Case Study: Relearning C++ after C++11.

Issue 75 - State of the art in enterprise programming languages, from Java to .NET. Case Study: PHP 8.x: Exploring Improvements in the Type System, Functions, Attributes, and More.

Issue 74 - Event-Driven Architecture. Case Study: Building Kafka Event-Driven Applications with KafkaFlow.

Issue 73 - Event-Driven Architecture. Case Study: A Case for Event-Driven Architecture with Mediator Topology.

Issue 72 - Event-Driven Architecture. Case Study: Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Lessons Learned on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages.

Issue 71 - Edge Computing: The Evolution of the Decentralized Cloud. Case Study: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Event-Driven Architecture on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Issue 70 - Edge Computing: The Evolution of the Decentralized Cloud. Case Study: Data Patterns for the Edge: Data Localization, Privacy Laws, and Performance.

Issue 69 - Edge Computing: The Evolution of the Decentralized Cloud. Case Study: The Process of Creating Decentralized Apps (dApps).

Issue 68 - Modern Data Processing: Data Pipelines, Streaming, and Data Mesh. Case Study: Design Pattern Proposal for Autoscaling Stateful Systems.

Issue 67 - Modern Data Processing: Data Pipelines, Streaming, and Data Mesh. Case Study: Building and Operating High-Fidelity Data Streams.

Issue 66 - Modern Data Processing: Data Pipelines, Streaming, and Data Mesh. Case Study: AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report—August 2022.

Issue 65 - A retrospective of 2022. InfoQ's Favorite Case Study: Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2022.

Issue 64 - From One to Many: Architects, Staff Plus Engineering, and Optimizing Teams. Case Study: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum: Charity Majors at QCon SF.

Issue 63 - From One to Many: Architects, Staff Plus Engineering, and Optimizing Teams. Case Study: Bridging the Understanding Gap between Business and IT.

Issue 62 - Intentional Architecture and Emergent Design. Case Study: Chipping Away at the Monolith: Applying MVPs and MVAs to Legacy Applications.

Issue 61 - Intentional Architecture and Emergent Design. Case Study: Why You Should Care about Software Architecture.

Issue 60 - Intentional Architecture and Emergent Design. Case Study: Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is.

Issue 59 - Developer Experience and Tooling. Case Study: Developer Experience at Lyft: from the Cloud to Local Environments.

Issue 58 - Developer Experience and Tooling. Case Study: How the Financial Times Approaches Engineering Enablement.

Issue 57 - Developer Experience and Tooling. Case Study: Scaling and Automating Microservice Testing at Lyft.

Issue 56 - Cloud Computing: From Edge to PaaS and IaaS. Case Study: Is Docker Secure Enough? Advice for Configuring Secure Container Images and Runtimes.

Issue 55 - Cloud Computing: From Edge to PaaS and IaaS. Case Study: Report Finds 75% of Cloud Runtimes Contain High or Critical Vulnerabilities.

Issue 54 - Cloud Computing: From Edge to PaaS and IaaS. Case Study: A Cloud-Native Architecture for a Digital Enterprise.

Issue 53 - A retrospective of 2021. InfoQ's Favorite Case Study: Turning Microservices Inside Out.

Issue 52 - Microservices: Past, Present, and Future. Case Study: Domain-Driven Design with Value-Added Services and Domain Gateways at SoundCloud.

Issue 51 - Microservices: Past, Present, and Future. Case Study: Turning Microservices Inside Out.

Issue 50 - Architecting for Resilience. Case Study: Building Reliable Software Systems with Chaos Engineering.

Issue 49 - Architecting for Resilience. Case Study: Continuous Learning as a Tool for Adaptation.

Issue 48 - Architecting for Resilience. Case Study: Designing and Managing for Resilience.

Issue 47 - Event-Driven Architecture. Case Study: eBay Adopts AsyncAPI for Asynchronous API Contracts.

Issue 46 - Event-Driven Architecture. Case Study: Effectful Effects—Unifying Bidirectional Communication between Software Components.

Issue 45 - Event-Driven Architecture. Case Study: The Linux Foundation Announces Hosting of AsyncAPI.

Issue 44 - Cloud Computing for the Enterprise. Case Study: Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges.

Issue 43 - Cloud Computing for the Enterprise. Case Study: Performance Analysis for Arm vs. x86 CPUs in the Cloud.

Issue 42 - Cloud Computing for the Enterprise. Case Study: Recap of AWS re:Invent 2020.

Issue 41 - A retrospective of 2020. InfoQ's Favorite Case Study: Zhamak Dehghani on Data Mesh, Domain-Oriented Data, and Building Data Platforms.

Issue 40 - The Modern JavaScript Stack within Enterprise Architectures. Case Study: Accessible Adaptive Design Systems with Microsoft’s New FAST Framework.

Issue 39 - The Modern JavaScript Stack within Enterprise Architectures. Case Study: 2nd-Generation JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries: Beyond Angular, React, and Vue!

Issue 38 - Stream all the things: streaming data pipelines, modern ETL, and data mesh. Case Study: John DesJardins on In-Memory Data Grids, Stream Processing, and App Modernization.

Issue 37 - Stream all the things: streaming data pipelines, modern ETL, and data mesh. Case Study: The Challenges of Building a Reliable Real-Time Event-Driven Ecosystem.

Issue 36 - Stream all the things: streaming data pipelines, modern ETL, and data mesh. Case Study: Zhamak Dehghani on Data Mesh, Domain-Oriented Data, and Building Data Platforms.

Issue 35 - Return of the monolith? The rise and fall of microservices. Case Study: Decomposing a Monolith Does Not Require Microservices.

Issue 34 - Return of the monolith? The rise and fall of microservices. Case Study: To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith

Issue 33 - Return of the monolith? The rise and fall of microservices. Case Study: Design and Implementation of a DDD-Based Modular Monolith

Issue 32 - Architecture styles and governance strategies. Case Study: What Comes after Microservices? Multi-Runtime Microservices with Bilgin Ibryam at QCon London

Issue 31 - Architecture styles and governance strategies. Case Study: Balancing Coupling in Distributed Systems: Vladik Khononov at DDD Europe

Issue 30 - Architecture styles and governance strategies. Case Study: Decision Strategies for a Micro Frontends Architecture

Issue 29 - A retrospective of 2019. InfoQ’s Favourite Case Study: Grady Booch: AI today is a System Engineering Problem with AI Components

Issue 28 - Multi-Cloud, Cloud native application development framework. Case study: Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative

Issue 27 - Multi-Cloud, Cloud native application development framework. Case study: Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open-Source Software

Issue 26 - Multi-Cloud, Cloud native application development framework.Case study: HashiConf US 2019: Terraform and Consul Updates, Multi-* Workflows, and Shared Learning

Issue 25 - Technical Leadership.Case study: Q&A on the Book Virtual Leadership

Issue 24 - Technical Leadership.Case study: The Agile Manifesto: A Software Architect's Perspective

Issue 23 - Technical Leadership.Case study: The Evolution of Comcast's Architecture Guild

Issue 22 - Data engineering and streaming architecture.Case study: The Data Science Mindset

Issue 21 - Data engineering and streaming architecture.Case study: Creating Events from Databases Using Change Data Capture

Issue 20 - Data engineering and streaming architecture. Case study: Grady Booch: AI today is a System Engineering Problem with AI Components

Issue 19 - Microservices. Case Study: Rewriting a Microservices API Gateway Service from Clojure to Go

Issue 18 - Microservices. Case Study: Using Golang to Build Microservices at The Economist: A Retrospective

Issue 92 - Next-generation architecture: From event-driven to cell-based architecture and beyond.
Case Study: Beyond Trends: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Message Broker.

Issue 91 - Next-generation architecture: From event-driven to cell-based architecture and beyond.
Case Study: The End of the Bronze Age: Rethinking the Medallion Architecture.

Issue 90 - Next-generation architecture: From event-driven to cell-based architecture and beyond.
Case Study: Software Architecture and the Art of Experimentation.

Issue 89 - Retrospective of 2024.
Case Study: Architectural Intelligence - The Next AI.

Issue 88 - The AI Shift: Evolving Roles for Software Architects.
Case Study: Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype.

Issue 87 - The AI Shift: Evolving Roles for Software Architects.
Case Study: InfoQ AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report—September 2024.

Issue 86 - Platform Engineering: Exploring the overlap between software architecture and platform building.
Case Study: Curating Developer Experience: Practical Insights from Building a Platform Team.

Issue 85 - Platform Engineering: Exploring the overlap between software architecture and platform building.
Case Study: Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering.

Issue 84 - Platform Engineering: Exploring the overlap between software architecture and platform building.
Case Study: Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering.

Issue 83 - Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and Staff Plus: The Evolution of Technical Careers.
Case Study: Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy.

Issue 82 - Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and Staff Plus: The Evolution of Technical Careers.
Case Study: How to Build and Foster High-Performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers.

Issue 81 - Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and Staff Plus: The Evolution of Technical Careers.
Case Study: Leading Tech People or Remaining a Software Engineer: A Panel Discussion.

Issue 80 - Evolution of architectures: Monolith, microservices, moduliths.
Case Study: Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture.

Issue 79 - Evolution of architectures: Monolith, microservices, moduliths.
Case Study: Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and Beyond.

Issue 78 - Evolution of architectures: Monolith, microservices, moduliths.
Case Study: The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices.

Issue 77 - Retrospective of 2023.
Case Study: Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Lessons Learned on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages.

Issue 76 - State of the art in enterprise programming languages, from Java to .NET.
Case Study: Relearning C++ after C++11.

Issue 75 - State of the art in enterprise programming languages, from Java to .NET.
Case Study: PHP 8.x: Exploring Improvements in the Type System, Functions, Attributes, and More.

Issue 74 - Event-Driven Architecture.
Case Study: Building Kafka Event-Driven Applications with KafkaFlow.

Issue 73 - Event-Driven Architecture.
Case Study: A Case for Event-Driven Architecture with Mediator Topology.

Issue 72 - Event-Driven Architecture.
Case Study: Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Lessons Learned on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages.

Issue 71 - Edge Computing: The Evolution of the Decentralized Cloud.
Case Study: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Event-Driven Architecture on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Issue 70 - Edge Computing: The Evolution of the Decentralized Cloud.
Case Study: Data Patterns for the Edge: Data Localization, Privacy Laws, and Performance.

Issue 69 - Edge Computing: The Evolution of the Decentralized Cloud.
Case Study: The Process of Creating Decentralized Apps (dApps).

Issue 68 - Modern Data Processing: Data Pipelines, Streaming, and Data Mesh.
Case Study: Design Pattern Proposal for Autoscaling Stateful Systems.

Issue 67 - Modern Data Processing: Data Pipelines, Streaming, and Data Mesh.
Case Study: Building and Operating High-Fidelity Data Streams.

Issue 66 - Modern Data Processing: Data Pipelines, Streaming, and Data Mesh.
Case Study: AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report—August 2022.

Issue 65 - A retrospective of 2022.
InfoQ's Favorite Case Study: Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2022.

Issue 64 - From One to Many: Architects, Staff Plus Engineering, and Optimizing Teams.
Case Study: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum: Charity Majors at QCon SF.

Issue 63 - From One to Many: Architects, Staff Plus Engineering, and Optimizing Teams.
Case Study: Bridging the Understanding Gap between Business and IT.

Issue 62 - Intentional Architecture and Emergent Design.
Case Study: Chipping Away at the Monolith: Applying MVPs and MVAs to Legacy Applications.

Issue 61 - Intentional Architecture and Emergent Design.
Case Study: Why You Should Care about Software Architecture.

Issue 60 - Intentional Architecture and Emergent Design.
Case Study: Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is.

Issue 59 - Developer Experience and Tooling.
Case Study: Developer Experience at Lyft: from the Cloud to Local Environments.

Issue 58 - Developer Experience and Tooling.
Case Study: How the Financial Times Approaches Engineering Enablement.

Issue 57 - Developer Experience and Tooling.
Case Study: Scaling and Automating Microservice Testing at Lyft.

Issue 56 - Cloud Computing: From Edge to PaaS and IaaS.
Case Study: Is Docker Secure Enough? Advice for Configuring Secure Container Images and Runtimes.

Issue 55 - Cloud Computing: From Edge to PaaS and IaaS.
Case Study: Report Finds 75% of Cloud Runtimes Contain High or Critical Vulnerabilities.

Issue 54 - Cloud Computing: From Edge to PaaS and IaaS.
Case Study: A Cloud-Native Architecture for a Digital Enterprise.

Issue 53 - A retrospective of 2021.
InfoQ's Favorite Case Study: Turning Microservices Inside Out.

Issue 52 - Microservices: Past, Present, and Future.
Case Study: Domain-Driven Design with Value-Added Services and Domain Gateways at SoundCloud.

Issue 51 - Microservices: Past, Present, and Future.
Case Study: Turning Microservices Inside Out.

Issue 50 - Architecting for Resilience.
Case Study: Building Reliable Software Systems with Chaos Engineering.

Issue 49 - Architecting for Resilience.
Case Study: Continuous Learning as a Tool for Adaptation.

Issue 48 - Architecting for Resilience.
Case Study: Designing and Managing for Resilience.

Issue 47 - Event-Driven Architecture.
Case Study: eBay Adopts AsyncAPI for Asynchronous API Contracts.

Issue 46 - Event-Driven Architecture.
Case Study: Effectful Effects—Unifying Bidirectional Communication between Software Components.

Issue 45 - Event-Driven Architecture.
Case Study: The Linux Foundation Announces Hosting of AsyncAPI.

Issue 44 - Cloud Computing for the Enterprise.
Case Study: Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges.

Issue 43 - Cloud Computing for the Enterprise.
Case Study: Performance Analysis for Arm vs. x86 CPUs in the Cloud.

Issue 42 - Cloud Computing for the Enterprise.
Case Study: Recap of AWS re:Invent 2020.

Issue 41 - A retrospective of 2020.
InfoQ's Favorite Case Study: Zhamak Dehghani on Data Mesh, Domain-Oriented Data, and Building Data Platforms.

Issue 40 - The Modern JavaScript Stack within Enterprise Architectures.
Case Study: Accessible Adaptive Design Systems with Microsoft’s New FAST Framework.

Issue 39 - The Modern JavaScript Stack within Enterprise Architectures.
Case Study: 2nd-Generation JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries: Beyond Angular, React, and Vue!

Issue 38 - Stream all the things: streaming data pipelines, modern ETL, and data mesh.
Case Study: John DesJardins on In-Memory Data Grids, Stream Processing, and App Modernization.

Issue 37 - Stream all the things: streaming data pipelines, modern ETL, and data mesh.
Case Study: The Challenges of Building a Reliable Real-Time Event-Driven Ecosystem.

Issue 36 - Stream all the things: streaming data pipelines, modern ETL, and data mesh.
Case Study: Zhamak Dehghani on Data Mesh, Domain-Oriented Data, and Building Data Platforms.

Issue 35 - Return of the monolith? The rise and fall of microservices.
Case Study: Decomposing a Monolith Does Not Require Microservices.

Issue 34 - Return of the monolith? The rise and fall of microservices.
Case Study: To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith

Issue 33 - Return of the monolith? The rise and fall of microservices.
Case Study: Design and Implementation of a DDD-Based Modular Monolith

Issue 32 - Architecture styles and governance strategies.
Case Study: What Comes after Microservices? Multi-Runtime Microservices with Bilgin Ibryam at QCon London

Issue 31 - Architecture styles and governance strategies.
Case Study: Balancing Coupling in Distributed Systems: Vladik Khononov at DDD Europe

Issue 30 - Architecture styles and governance strategies.
Case Study: Decision Strategies for a Micro Frontends Architecture

Issue 29 - A retrospective of 2019.
InfoQ’s Favourite Case Study: Grady Booch: AI today is a System Engineering Problem with AI Components

Issue 28 - Multi-Cloud, Cloud native application development framework.
Case study: Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative

Issue 27 - Multi-Cloud, Cloud native application development framework.
Case study: Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open-Source Software

Issue 26 - Multi-Cloud, Cloud native application development framework.
Case study: HashiConf US 2019: Terraform and Consul Updates, Multi-* Workflows, and Shared Learning

Issue 25 - Technical Leadership.
Case study: Q&A on the Book Virtual Leadership

Issue 24 - Technical Leadership.
Case study: The Agile Manifesto: A Software Architect's Perspective

Issue 23 - Technical Leadership.
Case study: The Evolution of Comcast's Architecture Guild

Issue 22 - Data engineering and streaming architecture.
Case study: The Data Science Mindset

Issue 21 - Data engineering and streaming architecture.
Case study: Creating Events from Databases Using Change Data Capture

Issue 20 - Data engineering and streaming architecture.
Case study: Grady Booch: AI today is a System Engineering Problem with AI Components

Issue 19 - Microservices.
Case Study: Rewriting a Microservices API Gateway Service from Clojure to Go

Issue 18 - Microservices.
Case Study: Using Golang to Build Microservices at The Economist: A Retrospective

Issue 17
Highlights for 2018: Software Architecture, Microservices, Serverless Observability, Chaos Engineering, Containers

Issue 16 - Microservices.
Case Study: The Human Side of Microservices

Issue 15 - Container orchestration and scheduling.
Case Study: Kubernetes 1.12 Brings Volume Snapshots, TLS Improvements, and More

Issue 14 - Container orchestration and scheduling.
Case Study: Weaveworks Explain Their "GitOps" Model for Using Developer Tooling to Implement Container CI/CD

Issue 13 - Container orchestration and scheduling.
Case Study: Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes and PaaS: Niko Kurtti at QCon NY