How to accelerate your microservices journey with an iPaaS

Chanaka Fernando
Microservices Learning
2 min readJul 5, 2021

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How microservices can be built with an iPaaS platform like Choreo

Introduction

Building applications with microservices architecture helps organizations to provide great experiences to the users regardless of the scale of the demand. But it is not that simple to build and manage a microservices-based application platform.

Integration Platform as a Service or an iPaaS is a cloud service that helps organizations to build integrations across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. It provides all the underlying building blocks to the users so that they can focus on creating integrations that are critical to the business operations rather than spending their time on setting up the servers, networking, patching, installing software, manual testing, and deployments.

The figure below depicts the concept of Inner and Outer Architecture of a microservices-based platform.

Figure: Microservices Inner and Outer Architecture

The above figure depicts the concept of the “Inner Architecture” in the microservices world which is responsible for the development of individual microservices and integrate those microservices with each other. Most of the microservices teams would fancy that task since that represents the core of their function.

But the “Outer Architecture” helps these solutions to become scalable, consumable, and maintainable by providing all the underlying tools. Without proper investment in “Outer Architecture”, most of the microservices projects get stalled and becomes ever so complex to manage.

So, What is the Solution with iPaaS?

Choreo and Microservices

In the below article which is published on the WSO2 website, I discuss how Chroeo an iPaaS by WSO2 can help developers and architects to build effective microservices based applications by tacking both “Inner Architecture and Outer Architecture”. The article covers the following main topics.

  • Introduction to Microservices Architecture (MSA)
  • Challenges posed by MSA
  • How Choreo helps with an MSA based development approach
  • Advantages of Choreo
  • Closing thoughts

Read the article in the below link.

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Chanaka Fernando
Microservices Learning

Writes about Microservices, APIs, and Integration. Author of “Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS” and "Solution Architecture Patterns for Enterprise"