System Integration, From Middleware to APIs |
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| © 2024 by IJCTT Journal | ||
| Volume-72 Issue-3 |
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| Year of Publication : 2024 | ||
| Authors : Prasenjit Banerjee | ||
| DOI : 10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V72I3P106 | ||
How to Cite?
Prasenjit Banerjee, "System Integration, From Middleware to APIs," International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 37-45, 2024. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V72I3P106
Abstract
Nowadays any customer journey, whether it is banking or financial services, retail or healthcare, goes through several software systems. Transactions as simple as using a credit card to make a purchase or sending an offer to the customer for a personal loan often involve the orchestration of a myriad of systems. While some systems are deployed in the cloud, others are legacy on-premises systems that maintain customer transactional history. Connecting these systems to make sure that they exchange data and logic in a way that makes the overall process smooth and meaningful can be achieved in a lot of ways. The technology behind System Integration has evolved over time and has taken a paradigm shift from the way it was done in the past to the way it is approached now. For a lack of standardization, in the field of system integration, many organizations have taken radically different approaches towards it and such experiments have led to a diverse range of outcomes. It is possible to look at those different outcomes and objectively assess which approach is better, more robust and scalable than the other. In this study, I have tried to draw several examples from my 16 years of experience to make an objective evaluation of how each of those approaches compare against each other. What are the common challenges faced during System Integration, and what are the broad common patterns that have evolved as best practices that the industry has embraced.
Keywords
Middleware, API, Client-Server, MVC, Enterprise Service Bus.
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