Enterprise Integration for Beginners

If your enterprise is thinking about moving into cloud, you should be thinking about moving into multi-cloud. The reason is that, you can achieve the below mentioned advantages. Provides much better service availability — Given that your applications are running across multiple cloud environments, your services can run without much interruption even if an entire cloud system goes down. Get enterprises free from vendor lock-in — Cloud vendors always try to get as much applications into their own cloud and that will lock you into a single vendor so that you cannot get away from them even you need to do it. With the multi-cloud approach, you don’t need to lock into any vendor and move away from them at any time. Can negotiate for better deals — Once you are in multi cloud, you have more power to demand for discounts since every vendor wants to increase their share of your account. Can use best technology for the applications — Different cloud vendors are strong in different ar...

Microservices architecture is not a silver bullet for all your enterprise IT system requirements. Some requirements come just after implementing a microservices architecture. Service Mesh and API Management are such mechanisms which works along with microservices to build a comprehensive microservices architecture. The below post explains how these 3 pillars can help you to build an effective microservices platform. https://medium.com/microservices-learning/microservices-service-mesh-and-api-management-7408c001fb31

Microservices architectures are becoming more and complex and challenging to maintain. Given the advantages it brings to the enterprise IT ecosystem, the complexity is out-numberes by the advantages. Service Mesh allows the enterprises to control communication amongst microservices as well as communications from external clients to the microservices. Istio is becoming more and more popular as a service mesh because it provides both data plane and control plane capabilities of a service mesh. The following medium post explains the Istio Service Mesh along with its usage. https://medium.com/microservices-learning/istio-service-mesh-pattern-61a2848704bf

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

Database technologies are growing at a somewhat slower rate than other technology areas. But still, it is a major component of any enterprise software architecture. Due to the lack of innovation in the user experience side of the database technologies and the amount of “fear” people having when exposing databases to the end users have put the databases into a corner within the enterprise software systems. If you need to access a particular data set from a database table, you need to go through several layers and go after DB admins to get your work done. Databases have become the “precious” things in the enterprise. But do you need to be that way forever? The below medium post explains how databases can be exposes through a managed API which will democratize the database access within your enterprise. https://medium.com/wso2-learning/how-to-expose-your-database-as-a-managed-api-with-wso2-in-10-minutes-c9ac2595738b

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

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) has become a core requirement within the enterprise IT ecosystem. It does not matter what type of software you develop (e.g. back-end services, UI/UX, APIs, middleware), you should be able to automate your development, test and deployment process. WSO2 ESB is one of the popular open source integration solutions available for implementing middleware services. The below mentioned medium post discusses how to implement a CI/CD pipeline with WSO2 ESB. https://medium.com/wso2-learning/how-to-build-a-ci-cd-pipeline-for-wso2-esb-wso2-ei-1f7ba3cc833d