Enabling the power of the integration – connectors

This section provides a deeper look into how connectors and custom connectors can be reused across environments with the help of ALM. We will take a look at the concepts of environmental variables and connection references, which are two important concepts for when we plan to scale. We will learn how solutions can be used to wrap connectors for potential reuse across different environments.

Connectors

We were introduced to connectors in Chapter 2. Our discussion on connectors so far has covered that connectors enable us to connect to different services and data sources from within our applications, flows, and chatbots. Connectors can be either certified ones, which connect to first- or third-party services, or they can be custom ones. Certified connectors are prebuilt and cannot be changed, whereas custom connectors give us the freedom to create our own connectors to connect to either our own custom services/APIs or other...