Enterprise Integration for Beginners

Enterprise software used to be slow moving, legacy, safe-playing and conservative in the past. But that era is long gone with the new advancements we have seen in the last 5 to 10 years. This trend of innovation and rapid change will get accelerated during the year 2018. Here are 5 main technology areas that will change the way people build, sell and use enterprise software. IaaS to PaaS to FaaS  — Maintaining a server infrastructure was challenging even for very large enterprises due to the various levels of expertise needed to maintain it. But this has changed a long way with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006 and with their EC2 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). All the other cloud vendors followed AWS and offered their own solutions like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud platform. Then came the next level of cloud computing frameworks, Platform as a Service or PaaS where cloud vendors provide both infrastructure as well as operating systems and a common platfo...

Just before all the hype about Microservices Architecture is gone, there is another term which is looming within the technology forums. Even though this is not entirely new concept, it became a talking topic recently. This hot topic is Serverless Architecture and Serverless computing. As I have already mentioned, this was around us for some time with the advent of Backend As A Service or BaaS or MBaaS. But it was at a different scale before AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions came into the picture with their own serverless solutions. In layman’s terms, Serverless Architecture or Serveress Computing means that your backend logic will run on some third party vendor’s server infrastructure which you don’t need to worry about. It does not mean that there is no server to run your backend logic, rather you do not need to maintain it. That is the business of these third party vendors like AWS, Azure and Google. Serverless computing has 2 variants. Backend as a...