https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Technical Debt Presentations feed https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tech-hype-cycles-architectural-tradeoffs/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Technical+Debt-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/tech-hype-cycles-architectural-tradeoffs/en/mediumimage/holly-cummins-medium-1783578321356.jpeg"/><p>Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZIRP) and technical debt to epistemic and sleep debt, showing engineering leaders how to navigate shifts in assumptions, embrace sustainability, and revive proven engineering disciplines.</p> <i>By Holly Cummins</i> Artificial Intelligence Cloud-Native Quarkus Technical Debt QCon London 2026 Hype Transcripts Development Architecture & Design Culture & Methods presentation Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tech-hype-cycles-architectural-tradeoffs/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Technical+Debt-presentations Holly Cummins 2026-07-31T11:00:00Z /presentations/tech-hype-cycles-architectural-tradeoffs/en