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Article: InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2026

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT

This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space in 2026.

By Shane Hastie, Ben Linders, Vanessa Formicola, Shawna Martell, Rafiq Gemmail, Craig Smith, Phillip Mortimer, Yinka Omole

Article: Runtime-Agnostic AI Workflows: A Pattern for Production Durability and Fast Eval Iteration

Mateus Moury — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT

AI workflows have two needs that trade off directly. Running reliably in production requires persisting and distributing every step so it survives crashes, deploys, and restarts. But that same machinery is what makes runs too heavy for the fast, throwaway loop you need to check an LLM's output quality. The properties that buy durability are the ones that kill iteration speed.

By Mateus Moury

Article: Securing MCP in Production: Defense-in-Depth beyond the Gateway

Nik Kale — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

This article presents a defense-in-depth approach for securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments in production. It outlines four architectural control layers: safe execution, management infrastructure, outbound trust, and semantic integrity, arguing that production security requires enforcement beyond the gateway at the earliest trustworthy control points.

By Nik Kale