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  "id": 17445,
  "title": "Presentation: The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/presentation-the-free-lunch-guide-to-idea-circularity",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-07-31T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "InfoQ",
    "slug": "infoq",
    "url": "https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tech-hype-cycles-architectural-tradeoffs/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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. By Holly…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}