Top 10 Tips You Should Know As A Modern Software Architect

With fast-paced technology evolution, software architecture is evolving each day with new patterns and technology choices. This article summarizes the top 10 tips you should know as a modern software architect and the list is not limited but evolving.

#1 — Be observant of frameworks providing acceleration towards Microservices Architecture (MSA)

• With Microservices Architecture in mainstream adoption, most of the frameworks either have started remodeling themselves as per Microservices Architecture.
• Key capabilities frameworks need to support are Lightweight & minimal Footprint, easy to learn, support for fault tolerance, observability (tracing, metrics, logging), security (authentication & authorization), etc.
• While there are established frameworks like Spring and Play Framework in Java, be observant and ready to adapt new frameworks like Helidon, Quarkus, or Micronaut based on the requirement. Also, established players like Spring framework are coming up with new choices such as Reactive Stack for Microservices, Spring GraphQL, RSocket with Spring Boot, etc., which need to be applied as per the use-case.
• Other languages have similar trends like Gokit & Gomicro for Golang, Flask, Bottle, Falcon, and Nameko for Python, and Molecular & Nest for NodeJS.
• Another key aspect of Microservices Architecture is that you don’t need to…