The Hidden Infrastructure Convergence of 2025 That Will Reshape 2026

Infrastructure was supposed to get simpler. Containers would streamline deployments, observability would make systems clearer, and event-driven design would reduce complexity. Instead, most organisations added more tools, expanded cloud costs, and struggled to get meaningful Gen AI results. But 2025 revealed a different pattern. Mature platforms converged. Observability stabilised around OpenTelemetry. Kafka removed its 14-year