Technology rarely moves in a straight line. Old ideas return, assumptions change, and yesterday's trade-offs become today's best practices.
In this #InfoQ talk, Holly Cummins explores why ideas resurface, how hype cycles shape adoption, and why sustainable, thoughtful engineering starts with understanding the past.
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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.
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