Service Integration unifies distributed applications and APIs into coherent business processes, covering interface, messaging, and orchestration strategies.
Service integration connects distributed software components, APIs, and applications into coherent business processes. It covers interface design, messaging, and orchestration strategies to align data flows, transactions, and security across systems. Implementations range from lightweight API composition to enterprise service buses and integration platforms.
Measures number of processed integration requests per time unit.
Time from request entry to final response or processing.
Proportion of failed integration calls versus successful calls.
Central ESB architecture connects POS, warehouse, and online shop for process consistency.
API gateway consolidates auth, rate limiting, and routing for external partners.
Event-driven integration via Kafka provides near-real-time status updates to consumers.
Analyze existing interfaces and business processes.
Define integration contracts and versioning rules.
Select suitable integration patterns (API gateway, ESB, eventing).
Implement adapters, mappings and error strategies.
Introduce monitoring, alerting and SLAs.