Integration & API Architecture — System Architecture Roadmap
Designing how services and external systems talk to each other reliably
Steps in Integration & API Architecture
- API Design Principles & Contracts — advanced · Designing stable, well-documented contracts between services and consumers
- API Versioning & Backward Compatibility — advanced · Strategies for evolving APIs without breaking existing consumers
- Enterprise Integration Patterns — advanced · Message routing, transformation, aggregation and other recurring integration patterns
- API Gateway & Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) — advanced · A single entry point per client type, tailored to that client's needs
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous Integration Trade-offs — advanced · Deciding at an architecture-governance level which integrations should block and which shouldn't
- Integrating Third-Party & Legacy Systems — advanced · Anti-corruption layers and adapters for systems you don't control
Part of
- System Architecture roadmap — the full learning path