Architecture Through Different Lenses 2025
Why does your code look the way it does? What forces shaped that general utilities library everyone contributes to? How can platforms succeed by being invisible? When should teams make their own architectural decisions rather than wait for approval? And as multi-cloud becomes inevitable, how do we build systems that actually thrive across provider boundaries?
I’m excited to share that InfoQ’s latest eMag, “Architecture through Different Lenses”, is now live! This is the first eMag I served as the managing editor for, and I couldn’t be happier with the result!
Software architecture in 2025 extends far beyond technical diagrams and design patterns. Accordingly, this eMag explores architecture through five distinct lenses: the socio-technical forces that invisibly shape our code, the paradox of infrastructure that succeeds by disappearing, the power of distributed intelligence over centralized control, the evolutionary advantage of iteration over revolution, and the pragmatic reality of designing for inevitable complexity.
As architects, we constantly navigate tensions between ideal and pragmatic, innovation and stability, speed and safety. These articles won’t give you a single answer, because there isn’t any. Instead, they offer perspectives that help you see your own challenges more clearly and provide patterns others have used successfully. Most importantly, they remind you that the best architectures emerge when we stop pretending technology exists separately from the humans who build and use it.
