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InfoQ Announces January Online Architect Cohort Focused on Socio-Technical Leadership

InfoQ announces the January 2026 intake for its Certified Architect Program. Facilitated by Luca Mezzalira, this 5-week online cohort focuses on socio-technical leadership, helping senior architects bridge the gap between technical design and organizational influence. Participants engage in weekly applied learning and peer collaboration to earn the ICSAET certification. By Ian Robins

Article: Architecture in a Flow of AI-Augmented Change

While AI adoption is surging, most organizations fail to scale past pilots. The solution lies in organizational structure, not just technology. This article details how architects can enable "fast flow" by defining clear domains and guardrails. Learn how to shift from controlling outcomes to curating context, allowing AI to drive continuous, valuable business change. By Jonathan McPhail, Juan Medina, Jake DeCrane, Isuru Wijesundara

QCon AI New York 2025: Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks Instead of Years

David Stein, Principal AI Engineer at ServiceTitan, presented “Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks instead of Years” at QCon AI New York 2025. Stein demonstrated how migrations don’t have to be synonymous to “moving mountains” and introduced the concepts of the Principle of Acceleration and the Assembly Line Pattern. By Michael Redlich

Presentation: Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies From chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US

Durai Arasan explains the architectural strategies used to scale Chase.com to 67M+ active users. He discusses achieving high resilience through multi-region isolation, slashing latency by 71% via edge computing, and utilizing automated "infrastructure repaving" to eliminate security drift. He shares vital lessons on self-healing observability and building an engineering-first culture. By Durai Arasan

Yelp Publishes Blueprint for Managing S3 Server-Access Logs at Massive Scale

In a detailed engineering post, Yelp shared how it built a scalable and cost-efficient pipeline for processing Amazon S3 server-access logs (SAL) across its infrastructure, overcoming traditional limitations of raw log storage and querying at high volume. By Craig Risi

Breaking Silos: Netflix Introduces Upper Metamodel to Bring Consistency Across Content Engineering

Netflix has introduced the Upper metamodel within its Unified Data Architecture (UDA) to standardize domain definitions and generate consistent data container representations. UDA links conceptual models to GraphQL, Avro, SQL, and Java artifacts, supporting projections, mappings, and knowledge graph-based discovery across content, advertising, and operational systems. By Leela Kumili

Presentation: Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova share Open GI's journey from a slow, legacy monolith to a cloud-native SaaS platform. They detail how adopting Team Topologies and a decentralized architectural approach empowered teams. Key practices discussed include utilizing Domain-Driven Design to create a Context Map, implementing the Advice Process with Architectural Principles, and more. By Peter Hunter, Elena Stojmilova

Presentation: Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud

George Mao shares a deep dive into evolving a basic web application to a planet-scale, global architecture. He walks through five stages of maturity, focusing on adding enterprise-grade security, achieving global high availability and disaster recovery, optimizing content delivery costs with CDNs, and implementing globally consistent persistence using serverless technologies. By George Mao

Mini book: Architecture Through Different Lenses 2025

This eMag explores architecture through five distinct lenses: the socio-technical forces that invisibly shape our code, the paradox of infrastructure that succeeds by disappearing, the power of distributed intelligence over centralized control, the evolutionary advantage of iteration over revolution, and the pragmatic reality of designing for inevitable complexity. By InfoQ

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"If you time-traveled to 1979 and found yourself sitting across from me in my office at Bell Labs—just as I was drafting the initial designs for what would become 'C with Classes'—what would you tell me?": A homework by Bjarne Stroustrup.

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