Enterprise Integration for Beginners

The digital business landscape is helping businesses to grow beyond geographical boundaries. Transforming your business into a digital business is no longer an optional thing, rather it has become a necessity. Early adopters, late boomers, methodical players, every enterprise is trying to modernize its enterprise IT ecosystem to improve the efficiency and become a leader in their respective enterprise domain. If you are an enterprise architect who is responsible for building a digital platform from scratch, modernize an existing IT platform or lift and shift an existing deployment into the cloud, there are 100s of different software and technology vendors available to support your effort. The days of proprietary software is long gone and people are more and more migrating towards open source software(OSS). One of the major challenges of adopting OSS is the maintenance overhead. But that challenge is absorbed by the mega-cloud vendors as well as other cloud services offered by the vendo...

WSO2 API Manager has become a leader in the API Management space according to the latest Forrester Wave report which was published on 30th October 2018 (Q4, 2018). This announcement has marked a significant landmark on open source development where all the other vendors in the leaders' section are proprietary vendors. In the below medium post, I discuss about what are the important aspects of this announcement to the enterprise software world and the open source community. https://medium.com/wso2-learning/how-wso2-api-manager-is-leading-the-open-source-pack-34277ad1a80f

Microservices hype is not over yet. There are technologies like serverless computing and multi cloud platforms coming up and they will eventually increase the need for microservices style programming and application development. When it comes to enterprise software development, we can see that it is a mixture of traditional soa style systems, api driven systems which are backed my microservices or above mentioned soa systems, cloud based SaaS applications as well as proprietary software systems running on premise. Enterprise is going to be like this for a foreseeable future. It is quite important that as an architect or a senior leader who is responsible for an enterprise software architecture to understand the proper approach to built your software eco system which will be an ever important factor to your business. When it comes to building such a complex system, there are 3 main approaches stands out Polyglot programming model Platform based programming model (open source) Ven...

If you are an IT architect responsible for designing your enterprise IT system, you may have already experienced this topic. Modern IT systems consists of so many different systems developed by different vendors with different technology stacks. Even though those are developed independently, those systems should interact with each other to provide a seamless business experience to your stake holders. This is where the challenge of integration comes into the picture. Integrating heterogenous systems is a very complex task and you need to consider so many things before choosing a proper solution. With this blog post, I am going to discuss about the things which you need to consider when choosing an integration solution for your enterprise. I have grabbed some ideas from the following blog post[1] which also describes a similar topic. [1]  http://www.infoq.com/articles/ESB-Integration Mainly, there are 2 streams of product categories available in the market. Open source softwa...