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Enterprise API Management: Q&A with Book Author Luis Weir

In the Enterprise API Management book, Luis Weir provides technology-agnostic strategies that organizations can implement to drive more predictable outcomes. The topics that Weir covers in this book include the Business Value of APIs, Business-Led API Strategy, API-Led Architectures, API-Architecture Styles, API Life Cycle and more.

Kent Weare Luis Augusto Weir
on Dec 31, 2019
Architecture & Design

Application Integration for Microservices Architectures: A Service Mesh Is Not an ESB

A service mesh is only meant to be used as infrastructure for communication between services, and developers should not be building any business logic inside the service mesh. Other frameworks and libraries can be used to implement cloud native enterprise application integration patterns.

Kasun Indrasiri
on May 15, 2019
Architecture & Design

Two Mistakes You Need to Avoid When Integrating Services

With SOA, businesses moved from monolithic applications to heterogeneous designs by decomposing functionality into services. However, architects must be careful when integrating services. Often enterprises assume adopting patterns like ESB can help. Unfortunately, there are hidden challenges with these patterns. The danger is they go unnoticed during development but surface when a system is live.

Pamod Sylvester
on Sep 07, 2016
Why SOA Should Be Viewed As “Dependency-Oriented Thinking”

Ganesh Prasad proposes minimizing service dependencies in a SOA implementation rather than avoiding point-to-point connections in order to obtain a more flexible system that can evolve over time.

Ganesh Prasad
on Oct 16, 2014
Minding the API Hierarchy of Needs with RAML and APIkit

Reza Shafii explains how to satisfy two fundamental needs of API design and implementation, as defined by the API hierarchy of needs, with RAML, API Designer and APIkit.

Reza Shafii
on Jan 15, 2014
Zato - Python-based ESB and Backend Application Server

Zato is an open-source ESB and application server written in Python. It is designed to integrate systems in SOA and to build backend applications (i.e. API only).

Dariusz Suchojad
on Jul 06, 2013
Choosing the Right ESB for Your Integration Needs

Kai Wähner explains the differences between an integration framework, an ESB and an integration suite, following with advice for selecting the right one from existing commercial and open source solutions.

Kai Wähner
on Apr 02, 2013
Interview and Book Review: Spring Integration in Action

Spring Integration in Action book, authored by Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici and Iwein Fuld, covers the Spring Integration framework which provides an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Spring programming model. InfoQ spoke with authors about the book, Spring Integration framework, its strengths and limitations.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 14, 2012
Mule ESB 3.3 Release and CloudHub

MuleSoft, the company behind Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product Mule, recently released version 3.3 of the product. The new version's focus is to combine data integration with Mule's application integration capabilities and to deliver a solution for on-premise or cloud integration for developers. InfoQ spoke with Ross Mason and Daniel Feist about the new features and product roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on Aug 15, 2012
Interview With Ross Mason On The Release Of Mule 3

Mulesoft recently released Mule 3, their next generation ESB platform. The product comes with a lot of architectural changes under the hood to support the features aimed at making the product easier to use, such as Mule Cloud Connect and Flow, a message flow based service design. InfoQ caught up with Ross Mason to learn more about the product release and the new features in the product offering.

Dilip Krishnan
on Nov 16, 2010
Error Handling Considerations in SOA Analysis & Design

This paper looks at various error handling considerations associated with design of re-usable services and provides an outline of what error handling considerations apply during SOA analysis and design phases and also describes some best practices into designing these considerations to ensure that services are designed and implemented in all its completeness.

Hari Poolla
on Sep 13, 2010
Patterns In The Context of SOA Business Services

In this article Michael Poulin explores the different contexts in which SOA patterns are applied; how the products from different vendors influence these patterns and its effect on the responsibilities of business and IT. One such product is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB); Michael evaluates a few patterns related the ESB products and their application under different contexts.

Michael Poulin
on Aug 02, 2010