Integration Architecture Options

With a firm understanding of the products that will be leveraged in the overall solution and the right team assembled with alignment on the project goals, it’s time to start evaluating the options for bringing it all together. In this chapter, we’ll cover three main strategies for integration, including point-to-point integrations, integrations through a middleware layer, and building around a single source of truth. In most solutions, elements of each of these integration patterns will be leveraged to create the right solution for a given organization.

In Chapter 7, Role of a Solution Architect, we covered some of the other architects you’ll be working with as part of an integrated solution, including enterprise architects and product-specific technical architects. The decisions around integration architecture and patterns are where you’ll be coordinating most heavily with the enterprise architect, who likely has a larger...