Application Integration Challenges: Application integration represents a significant part of business requirements, but connecting individual components and ensuring seamless collaboration can be a complex task.
Centralized vs. Decentralized Approach: Platform teams often take a centralized approach to application integration, while application teams prefer more autonomy. The goal is to find a balance between standardization and autonomy.
Event-Driven Architecture and EventBridge: EventBridge plays a crucial role in enabling event-driven integration, allowing for decoupled publish-subscribe patterns and cross-account event delivery.
Domain-Driven Design and Event Buses: Aligning event buses with domains helps distribute the ownership and management of event-driven integrations, balancing centralization and autonomy.
Event Design and Schemas: Defining immutable, business-centric events and managing their versioning and schemas are essential for building a cohesive event-driven architecture.
Platform Engineering Responsibilities: Platform teams can help accelerate application integration by managing the event stream, versioning, schemas, and operational concerns, while leaving the event processing logic to application teams.
Tooling and Utilities: Tools like AWS PowerTools can simplify the implementation of best practices, such as data masking, fault tolerance, and observability, further empowering platform and application teams.