Happy to be back on the InfoQ Podcast end-of-year panel with my fellow co-hosts and editors. We looked back at 2025 and ahead to 2026: how AI is reshaping the way software gets built, why managing complexity is still the architect’s core job, the return of cloud and reliability to center stage after a year of outages, and the shifting relationship between big cloud providers and open source. I also shared a bold prediction or two. Listen to the full episode.