Any form of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) [1] work for data synchronization, digital transformation or customer self-service web implementation involves communication between the service providers and service consumers. A web of connections grows over time between systems, facilitated by tools specialising in “system-integration”; this article covers how the clients, services and integration tools communicate and…More
Category Archives: API
Tackling complexity: Using Process maps to improve visibility of integrated system features
“Entropy always increases “– second law of thermodynamics Enterprise systems are similar to isolated physical systems, where the entropy or hidden-information always increases. As the business grows, our technology footprint grows as new systems are implemented, new products and cross-functional features are imagined and an amazing network of integrations emerge Knowing how information flows and…More
Design-first API Contracts: Key to accelerating Integration and Improving API Quality
Service specifications along with developer documentation are key to turning your APIs into products. A well written and standards based API contract can not only make it faster and easier to integrate but also to test and deliver a solution faster Good API contracts help improve key software delivery metrics such as lead time through…More
Systems Integration Design: Picking the right patterns and building a robust solutions
Systems Integration is key to building good distributed solutions as software modules are spread across network within and outside the organisation. Knowing where we are building a solution, the key requirements for interaction, data, consistency etc can help pick the right integration patterns Here is my list of what I look for when integrating systems…More
Microservices with Docker and Spring Boot
This guide is for someone interesting in quickly building a micro-service using the Spring Boot framework. Works great if you have prior JAX-RS / Jersey experience Step-by-step guide Add the steps involved: Create a Maven Project Final Structure Pom ( Attached here ) Include Spring Boot Dependencies in your pom Parent Project <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>…More
API Performance Testing with Gatling
The Problem “Our API Gateway is falling over and we expect a 6-fold increase in our client base and a 10-fold increase in requests, our backend service is scaling and performing well. Please help us understand and fix the API Gateway” Tasks It was pretty clear we had to run a series of performance tests simulating…More
Alok Mishra 