Exploring the Future of Software Architecture with Agentic AI

The IT industry is undergoing significant changes as artificial intelligence (AI) integrates into software architecture and development. The upcoming decade is expected to focus on mastering AI to create a new generation of IT systems, following the previous decade’s emphasis on cloud and microservice architectures.

This article series aims to establish agentic AI architecture as a new form of software architecture that may dominate the industry in the years ahead. Written by industry experts, the series will cover various elements and aspects of agentic AI architecture, presenting the latest trends and developments as this architecture enters the mainstream.

While fully characterizing this new type of architecture is challenging at this stage, the series seeks to provide insights into how agentic AI will influence the future of the IT industry. Although still in its early stages, agentic AI architecture is expected to evolve and mature, with the series tracking key milestones and breakthroughs.

Series Contents

The series will include several articles, starting with:

• From Microservice to Agents: The Next Evolution of Distributed Systems – This article discusses the shift in distributed systems architecture driven by large language models (LLMs) and reasoning systems. Mallika Rao argues that agentic AI architectures focus on decomposing decisions, similar to how microservice architectures decompose functionality.
• The Evolution of Agentic Harnesses: From Chains to Graph to Code – Karthik Ramgopal describes the evolution of building agents that interact with large language models, sharing best practices for robust agentic AI architectures.

Further articles will be released, with the next installment expected during the week of October 26, 2026.

Source: InfoQ