Organizations are adopting cell-based architectures that contain and isolate a set of related services. The benefits include reduced latency, increased reliability, and cost savings. Innovators in privacy engineering are proactively designing systems with the security of users and their data as the primary consideration rather than simply responding to security regulations. Data continues to be a major force in architectural decisions. Complex analytical platforms and ML models are no longer considered secondary components as they shift towards core parts of transactional systems. In the past year, large language models (LLMs) have become a common feature in nearly every corner of the industry, but significant innovation opportunities remain to take LLMs beyond glorified chatbots. With the ideas from Team Topologies spreading across the industry, architects are giving more thought to the socio-technical factors of who will build and maintain the components of a system. The InfoQ Trends Reports offer InfoQ readers a comprehensive overview of key topics worthy of attention. The reports also guide the InfoQ editorial team towards cutting-edge technologies in our reporting. In conjunction with the report and trends graph, our accompanying podcast features insightful discussions among the editors digging deeper into some of the trends. Updates to the trends graph This year brought a comprehensive review of everything that was on last years InfoQ Architecture and Design Trend Report graph. Some of the broader theme items have been replaced with more specific tools, technologies, or patterns. For example, the past few years included several design for ... concepts that intended to showcase the -ilities and quality attributes architects considered in their trade-off analysis. This means some items which have appeared for several years are no longer on the graph, and in their place is a more specific aspect of the same concept. For example, the topic of privacy engineering is more precise than design for security. Although all companies consider security in their designs, privacy engineering identifies user privacy as a leading design principle. That mindset is still relatively new in the industry, which places it in the innovator category. Similarly, green software has replaced design for sustainability. The innovative trend here is considering a systems carbon footprint from day one rather than being reactive when cloud cost-and the corresponding energy usage-gets too high. Cell-based architecture is a new addition to the trends graph, appearing in the innovators category. Overall availability and fault tolerance can be improved by giving extra attention to how and where services are deployed, restricting communication paths between services, and isolating faults within one cell. Socio-technical architecture is replacing architecture as a