What are the current trends in Software architecture apart from SOA

Question

I know that SOA is an architecture pattern or style which is widely adopted. I also see Domain driven design is recommended by many people. Are there any other proven styles of architecture in current practice ?

If i had to talk for an hour on 'Current trends in Software architecture', which other methods apart from SOA should i touch upon.

Thanks, Raj.

Answer 1

"Trends" sounds a wee bit like "fashion" - as in "short lived", where as to me architecture has a bit more gravitas. Having said that: people will always leap on to "new" ideas (re-package old ones) but it's sometimes hard to discern between genuine architecture "trends" and marketing / Marchitecture based ones.

Just to pick on SOA for a minute - SOA might seem like a new thing to some people - but to others it's been around for a while (2005 depending on how you look at it).

Current trends in Architecture

Here's some topics I'd do some research into if I was in your shoes:

• The Cloud: this is clearly gaining a lot of popular momentum; as the Cloud (or our Cloud based thinking) becomes more mature (and Cloud services become more of a commodity) it provides options not previously available or as accessible.
• Multi-Tenancey: with more and more services being delivered through shared servcies there's a clear benefit in being able to deliver these using a multi-tenancey based approach.