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InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends Report - 2025
This InfoQ Trends Report offers readers a comprehensive overview of emerging trends and technologies in the areas of Cloud and DevOps. This report summarizes the InfoQ editorial team’s and external guests' view on the current trends in Cloud and DevOps technologies and what to look out for in the next 12 months.
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Engineering Principles for Building a Successful Cloud-Prem Solution
Discover how Cloud-Prem solutions combine cloud efficiency with on-premise control, meeting data sovereignty and compliance demands while optimizing operational costs and enhancing customer security.
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Using Traffic Mirroring to Debug and Test Microservices in Production-Like Environments
Traffic mirroring has evolved from a network security tool to a robust method for debugging and testing microservices using real-world data. By safely duplicating production traffic to a shadow environment, teams can replicate elusive bugs, profile performance under actual load, validate new features, and detect regressions, ensuring that production remains isolated and user experiences intact.
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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs
This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.
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Using GreenOps to Improve Your Operational Efficiency and Save the Planet
Our infrastructures have environmental and economic costs; the IT sector is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide. GreenOps can be used to help mitigate this impact.
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Elevating Kubernetes Logging for Enhanced Observability
In this article, we will explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices that will help you achieve seamless log management in your Kubernetes environment.
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Optimizing Spring Boot Config Management with ConfigMaps: Environment Variables or Volume Mounts
Spring Boot stands out as a viable framework for its agility and streamlined workflow. Yet, effective configuration management remains a pivotal factor influencing deployment efficiency and ongoing maintenance. ConfigMaps, a feature in Kubernetes, provides configuration strategies for Spring Boot applications.
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Optimizing Resource Utilization: the Benefits and Challenges of Bin Packing in Kubernetes
Optimizing Kubernetes usage is an important part of a responsible cloud strategy. Bin packing is an effective strategy for maximizing the usage of each node.
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Debugging Production: eBPF Chaos
This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. You’ll learn how chaos engineering can help, and get an insight into eBPF based observability and security use cases. Breaking them in a professional way also inspires new ideas for chaos engineering itself.
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Banking on Thousands of Microservices
Lessons learned building a banking platform, starting from technological choices like using Cassandra and Kubernetes in the early days to maintain the speed of execution through platform engineering and developer experience. With some mistakes and incidents along the way.
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The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms
There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.
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The Great Lambda Migration to Kubernetes Jobs—a Journey in Three Parts
In this article, I’d like to share our journey at Firefly on a great migration from serverless to Kubernetes jobs, lessons learned, and the technologies that helped us do so with minimal pain.
Resources
Gartner® Research: Hype Cycle™ for Cloud Platform Services, 2025
Gartner® Research highlights where innovation in cloud platforms is accelerating and how AI Agent Development Frameworks (e.g. Akka, Langchain, CrewAI...) are transformative for enterprises. Get the Report.
[Webinar] Creating Certainty in the Age of Agentic AI
See how enterprises move from agent prototypes to fully operational agentic AI systems—faster and with greater confidence. Learn how the right architecture, tools, and patterns help meet SLAs, reduce uncertainty, and deliver systems 3x faster with 1/3 the compute and lower token use. Watch On-Demand.
Announcing the Akka Agentic Platform
Experience the next breakthrough in agentic AI with the Akka Agentic Platform. Innovate and operate at 3X the velocity with 1/3 the compute, when compared with other AI agent development frameworks like Langchain and CrewAI. Build, run, and evaluate agentic systems with Akka’s AI-native SDK and deploy anywhere. Read the blog.
On-demand webinar: Mastering event sourcing
Event sourcing is transforming how we design, build, and maintain modern applications. In this on-demand webinar, Kevin Hoffman—author of Real-World Event Sourcing—shares key insights from his book, breaks down the rules of mastering event sourcing, and showcases a live demo with examples in Akka. Watch now.
On-demand webinar: Design patterns for agentic AI
Learn how to build scalable, event-driven AI agents using agentic design patterns and platforms like Akka. Watch now.
A Blueprint for Agentic AI Services
Agentic AI services have massive potential—but scaling them remains a challenge. Agents operate at exponentially greater scale, straining infrastructure. LLMs introduce latency and availability issues. Frequent model training leads to constant updates. And most of all, the cost of running LLMs at agentic scale adds up fast. Watch now.
Principles and Patterns for Distributed Application Architecture (By O’Reilly)
This guide covers key principles, patterns, and best practices—elasticity, latency, failure recovery, consistency, and consensus—to design high-availability distributed applications. Get the book.








