In the past, integration was much more of an ad-hoc issue rather than a company-wide matter. Reuse was rare, and maintenance was a complete nightmare. We had integration broker approaches and enterprise service buses — modern monolithic middleware — that replaced ad-hoc activities and added governance. But these were a single point of failure by nature, which limited their ability to scale.
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After the broker era, the concept of API management simplified integrations and freed applications from monolithic architecture by adopting a common communication language between systems, strong governance and security model and easily consumable documentation.
These days, most organizations rely on an API management strategy to modernize their system architectures. One usual way to start the implementation of such a strategy is by using an API gateway. The API gateway is the main security gatekeeper that connects to internal assets and provides a common standard for customers and partners to access data using APIs.
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New digital demands require a new type of architecture. This type of architecture must deal with the dynamism of digital connections in a flexible way. It must recognize that integrations happen in multiple interconnected places: in the cloud, on-premises and close to the end users.
Enter the hybrid integration platform (HIP). An HIP enables users to develop, secure and govern integration flows connecting diverse applications, systems, services and data stores. It also enables rapid API creation, composition and lifecycle management to meet the requirements of a range of integration use cases.
Based on the issues I’ve laid out above, it’s clear that traditional API strategies alone are not enough to handle today’s systems complexity and the variety of targets to be connected. In this day and age, an HIP is simply better suited to solve the digital transformation challenges that organizations are facing.
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The adoption of an HIP will reduce the friction you frequently find when connecting any kind of IT assets — whether they’re legacy or not. A pure low-code, cloud-native and secure HIP will release development teams to focus on more important matters that help the business win.
