The document discusses the WSO2 Carbon architecture, which provides a lean, modular, and enterprise-class middleware platform for building various WSO2 products. Key points: - Carbon is built on OSGi and uses its modularization features. It provides a minimal runtime and common components like security, caching, and logging that products can use. - Products like the application server and API manager are built as a collection of modules running on the Carbon runtime. This allows agile development and no integration challenges between products. - The architecture provides benefits like consistency across products, reduced learning curves, and unprecedented extensibility through additional modules. - Future releases will focus on areas like the next version Carbon 5