Building your integration toolbox
We now have a general idea of what a custom integration entails and how it can fit within our existing services to provide new efficiencies and capabilities to our company. But how do we get started? In addition to the items that we discussed earlier, particularly those in relation to project planning, understanding possible roadblocks, and points of failure in your development process, we need to identify and understand the different types of integrations that are common in the development space.
Before embarking on any integration project, developers need to understand the different types of integration approaches to ensure that the most applicable methodology and implementation technologies are used for a given implementation. The diversity of both integration requirements and capabilities means that a one-size-fits-all approach is likely to fail. Let's take a look at some of the more common methodologies in this space and examine each in...