Meet the band of mighty dev heros that happily just released their new platform. But their bright future is endangered by the mighty wizards of external dependencies. Their demands for integration and collaboration become more and more a burden for our mighty heros. But in their deepest despair, salvation came in the form of Echidna. This mysterious creature shows our band of heros how they can protect their precious platform from getting blocked and slowed down from integration baggage and how still they can stay open to new parties of collaboration without sacrificing their flexibility and own roadmap. The talk shows how to setup an Echidna architecture and how to abstract integrations via defined APIs and hooks. It also shows some basic rules to consider implementing the latter so that the core system stays flexible and effective without becoming too closed down and hence irrelevant.

Echidna Architecture is a pattern i came up with, helping several customers in keeping their platforms, or SaaS products in general, agile yet flexible to change