Enterprise Integration for Beginners

After years of effort, I am thrilled to announce the release of my second book “ Solution Architecture Patterns for Enterprise ”. How did it start? It all started a few years ago when I decided to share my experiences through a GitHub  repository  on Solution Architecture. Eventually, it became a popular resource within GitHub and then I decided to write a book with greater details. Here I am today, releasing the book that contains a set of solution architecture patterns that can be used to build enterprise software systems. Who this book is for? Solution Architecture is a domain in that people from different backgrounds (majors) come and work. This book can be used as a getting-started guide for novel Solution Architects and a pattern guide for experienced folks. For University Students, this can be used as reference material to learn about Solution Architecture which is hardly taught at universities yet a considerable area of expertise in the software industry. What is in th...

GraphQL is becoming popular in the tech industry as a replacement for REST. It really carries out significant advantages over existing mechanisms for the client-server type of communications. In simple terms, GraphQL allows the client to choose which information it wants rather than receiving all the data which is available for the API. This is similar to a database query where we request only the required information. That is why it is called as GraphQL. We can do this easily with databases and data services runtime. But if you think about implementing the same capability for a REST API, you have to create so many different resources and the client has to call each and every one of these resources and handle the orchestration logic at the client-side. Otherwise, the API server has to do the heavy-lifting of orchestration. But this is not scalable with the changing demands from customers and the business. The below medium post discusses possible solution architecture patterns that...

Solutions Architects (SAs) are the people who convert deep technical knowledge into a format that can be understood by both technical and non-technical people. They are the bridge between product engineers and salespeople. It is so strange that there is no common knowledge base (KB) that has been shared in the open-source community related to solutions architecture. That was the motivation for me to build such a KB which can be reused by SAs regardless of which technology stack they are working with or promoting. I have started small an initiated a GitHub repository and started contributing solutions architecture patterns which I learn from other people and learn while I’m working as a SA. Today, I have released the  0.3  version of this repository with a set of new solutions architecture patterns. Here is the GitHub repository link for this repository. chanakaudaya/solutions-architecture-patterns This repository contains solutions architecture patterns which c...

Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for managing container based deployments. It is a container orchestration platform which provides capabilities like Automatic scaling Self-healing Load balancing  Monitoring Service discovery Storage sharing In a real enterprise deployment, it is essential to understand how kubernetes can be used. The following medium post explains how to use kubernetes in an enterprise context. https://medium.com/solutions-architecture-patterns/kubernetes-deployment-pattern-6fb231c41d87