Software Architecture Trends
Hello!
I always like to read printed conference announcements because they usually contain a short description of each session. These short descriptions are an excellent ways to see what’s currently ‘hot’. My latest copy of the MSDN Magazine contained an announcement of the Software Architect 2007 conference in June 2007.
I made a little game and counted the number of certain buzzwords in the session descriptions. One could think that those buzzwords with the highest number are the currently ‘hot’ topics. Please be aware that Microsoft is (the one) ‘Platinum Sponsor’ of this conference. So don’t expect much coverage of Java or UML. In the table below, each buzzword is counted once if it occurred one or more times in a session description.
| Design orientied sessions | 6 |
| SOA | 4 |
| .NET | 4 |
| web service | 3 |
| Ajax | 3 |
| WCF | 3 |
| Pattern | 2 |
| Process oriented sessions | 2 |
| UML | 2 |
| Identity | 2 |
| ASP.NET | 2 |
| Agile | 1 |
| Biztalk | 1 |
| Domain Specific languages | 1 |
| Metrics | 1 |
| smart client | 1 |
| code generation | 1 |
| Visual Studio | 1 |
| Microsoft Motion | 1 |
The ‘design oriented’ sessions column in the table above contains only those sessions that are independent of any technology. If a session was ‘design oriented’ but targeted for a specific technology (e.g. ‘The benefits of achieving a truly distributed SOA’) I added it to the technology. Interestingly, there was one session ‘Visualisation of SOA designs using UML and Enterprise Architect’ that mentions explicitly a non Microsoft UML modeling tool. I think this is another indication of Enterprise Architects high popularity.
Best regards,
Andreas
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March 20th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Interesting tactic. I think I will have someone do this for all of the architect conferences (just ping me if you are interested) and post it on our site’s home page to see the conference topics back to back. 4 of our chapters are setting up 2 day regional conferences and this would be a great way to break out of the mold somewhat. It always annoyed me that hot topics got in the way of topics that I needed to hear about at the time. If you made a list of the topics you’d like to hear about, as opposed to what’s hot, what would they be?
March 20th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Hello Paul,
thanks for taking the time to comment.
I would not mind to attend technology specific talks at a conference as long as the speaker presents real world experiences instead of a vendors marketing talk.
I think the Software Architecture 2007 conference offers a sound mixture for people working in the ‘Microsoft world’.
Personally, the Models 2007 (http://redhat2.isis.vanderbilt.edu/) would interest me a lot.
Best regards,
Andreas