This week Jason Bloomberg, industry expert and author of the book, The Agile Architecture Revolution, delivered a great presentation called: It’s the 21st Century, Why Isn’t Your Data Integration Loosely Coupled? He reviews some of the challenges with traditional middleware connectors and tight coupling, where any change in the data format or interface requirements for either end of any interaction requires an update of the connector. 
The result is a very brittle integration environment with too many single points of failure. (See the iPaaS requirement for fluidity in hybrid deployments.)
Jason goes on to summarize the benefits of loose coupling and review the limitations of Web Services, XML Schemas and rigid, strongly typed data formats. The presentation reviews REST, JSON and what he calls the “schema-less data trap.” He concludes with the following data integration do’s and don’ts:
Read the entire article at http://www.snaplogic.com/blog/_esb-middleware-in-2015/.
