What? ESBs? I thought these were a relic of the past?
That is what I usually tend to say too. But, system integration has come a long way, from point-to-point connections between individual systems towards the first integration solutions that helped in standardizing those connections. And in the advent of a much more business-centered design—and the broader shift into more service-oriented organizations—the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has evolved from a pattern to a variety of products. They all promised to deliver re-usability and ex-changeability by standing up as a centralized and managed infrastructure component. With the next technology evolution—microservices—the need to manage even more potentially-polyglot and distributed services became overwhelming. …show more content…
Vendors have already started to “microservice-wash” their tools and platforms to grab your attention. And the segment architecture approach is still too new to give recommendations. For a while, it will still be your responsibility to understand the capabilities you need by doing your own research. Some promising candidates are evolving out of the open-source think tank at this very moment. First and foremost, projects like OpenShift Origin, WildFly Swarm, Fabric8, and APIMan will help you put together most of the puzzle pieces in your microservices-based architecture.
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