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May 1, 2026

Context Engineering Architecture 2.0

From service design to context design

/ Context Engineering · Architecture 2.0

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  1. 1. Context Engineering Architecture 2.0

    From service design to context design

  2. 2. What this article is about

    Analogy → enterprise strategy

    Part 1: 'LLM service' lens.

    Part 2: Architecture 1.0 vs 2.0.

    Part 3: signals 2025–2026.

    Parts 4–5: flexibility cost and strategy.

  3. 3. 01. Historical Analogy

    Why 'just add an LLM service' is too narrow a lens

  4. 4. Architectural shifts are underestimated

  5. 5. 02. Two Architecture Modes

    Architecture 1.0 — deterministic systems, Architecture 2.0 — managing uncertainty

  6. 6. Architecture 1.0 vs 2.0

  7. 7. 03. Industry Signals 2025–2026

    7 trends already changing architecture

  8. 8. Context and durable execution

  9. 9. Memory and tool layer

  10. 10. Evaluation and security

  11. 11. Event-driven + cognitive and scale in tokens

  12. 12. 04. Architecture 2.0 is not free

    Each of the 7 trends creates a new class of risks

  13. 13. Flexibility is not free

  14. 14. 05. Enterprise Strategy

    AI as a control plane over legacy, platform, and knowledge systems

  15. 15. Control layer over the landscape

  16. 16. What to borrow from where

  17. 17. Verdict

    From fixed paths to context

    Design unit: context, decisions, execution.

    Architecture 2.0 manages uncertainty over 1.0.

    Enterprise: AI = control plane over legacy.

    tellmeabout.tech · ai4sdlc-research.space

  18. 18. References and Materials

    Agentic architecture, context, security

    Anthropic: Building effective agents.

    MCP and tool integration.

    OpenAI Agents SDK and Responses API.

    LangGraph agents + OWASP LLM Top 10.

  19. 19. Thank you!

    Architecture 1.0 → 2.0

    Materials and links are in the "Book Cube" channel

    Alexander Polomodov, Technical Director & Fellow, T-Technologies