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Application integration overview

Application integration overview

- [Instructor] Two separate applications or systems can be connected together to satisfy different use cases. This integration can be done using event buses, messaging queues, APA calls, workflows, and many others. Application integration enables the communication between decoupled microservices, containers, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Integrating two or more independent applications is such a powerful thing. In fact, almost all modern applications are connected to both internal or external systems for fetching, queuing, transforming, transferring, and storing data. It also provides greater flexibility, scalability, and reliability than your standalone applications. There are thousands of companies right now that are refactoring their applications from obsolete monolithic architecture to a more flexible and scalable distributed architecture. Okay, let's stop for a minute and talk about why application integration is closely related to distributed architectures…

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