10-11/2020 - Take advantage of the best integration approaches¶

Digital transformation, microservices adoption, and cloud deployment include integration modernization. When you design solutions, you need to think end-to-end and not just cover microservices boundaries. Integration defines reusable and managed APIs, develops modern integration flows that can be deployed inside microservice, or addresses the data pipeline at scale with a high-throughput, low-latency messaging platform. You can continue transactional support with IBM® MQ while you adopt event sourcing for resiliency, auditing, or to apply AI models on real time flows. With high-volume data transfer, you can inject unstructured data to your data lake for developing new AI models. Integration stays at the core of the IT infrastructure with a new containerized deployment model to integrate your modern development practices. This is an exciting time to think about and adopt the next integration reference architecture

The IBM integration reference architecture introduction outlines how to transform your integration platform to a more modern architecture, with fine grained deployment, decentralized integration ownership and cloud native infrastructure. To start the journey you have to assess where the integration modernization will make more impact, and you can see three major perspectives:

1. Application integration
2. API exposure: Consumer-centric, channel optimized, adopting distributed gateways, with self-service discovery, developer portals to subscribe to API, and manage versioning. APIs can be internal and external
3. Messaging, and as part of the messaging the event driven architecture with technology like Kafka, Pulsar, NATS, or RedPanda.

Read more from the IBM integration reference architecture and listen to Kim Clark's video on breaking the ESB starting at 3 minutes.

The Booklet referenced in this video, is in this page.