Getting the patterns wrong

In this section, we look at how becoming too obsessed with a single integration style can cause serious problems by looking at the integration pattern monomania anti-pattern.

Integration pattern monomania

Integration pattern monomania happens when a single integration pattern is used to the exclusion of all others, regardless of whether it is a good fit for the requirements under consideration.

Example

WineCo has been a heavy user of Salesforce technology for more than a decade. It has a large estate of many orgs across core clouds, Marketing Cloud, and commerce.

It has developed a custom approach to building on Salesforce, including a range of frameworks and libraries that it uses consistently across projects. Many of these could use an update, but they are still preferred for the sake of consistency.

Clare is brought in from a leading consultancy to lead the build of a new app that WineCo is building for its distributors. The app will...