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Enterprise Integration14 February 20238 min read

Cloud Integration Architecture

Cloud integration services have matured into platforms that compete with traditional iPaaS. A decision framework for what belongs on cloud-native integration versus what belongs on a dedicated integration platform — and how to architect the boundary.

App Modernisation8 November 20228 min read

SOA Modernization for Enterprises

Service-Oriented Architecture has acquired baggage that obscures what it got right. A practitioner's view of what survives, what should be retired, and what the next generation of API-led and event-driven architectures actually inherited from SOA.

App Modernisation17 October 20228 min read

Modernizing Legacy Middleware Platforms

Legacy middleware modernisation rarely succeeds when treated as a platform migration. The high-leverage work is in the operating model, the document strategy, and the boundary discipline — most of which can be done without replacing anything.

Enterprise Integration19 July 20227 min read

Enterprise Service Bus Evolution

The ESB pattern is older than most engineers who work with it. A look at where it came from, what it did well, where it earned its bad reputation, and what genuinely replaces parts of it in modern integration architectures.

Enterprise Integration22 June 20228 min read

Integration Scalability Challenges

The places enterprise integration estates actually slow down are rarely the places engineers expect. A practitioner's catalogue of the real bottlenecks — and what to do about them when they bite.

Enterprise Integration22 February 20228 min read

Enterprise Integration Challenges in Large Organizations

Integration estates in large organisations rarely fail because the technology was wrong. They fail because the operating model around the technology was missing. A field perspective on the patterns that hurt — and what to do about them.