In the era of digital transformations, companies more than ever rely on distributed ecosystems to support their businesses. This in turn creates a large need for advanced interoperability capabilities, where Integration Platforms, by design, abstract the underlying complexities of communication and leverage integration patterns to deliver new functionality. However, the road towards seamless integration may be bumpy, riddled with spaghetti architecture, legacy systems, SaaS solutions setting their own standards...

In this talk, we will explore the pivotal role of applying ecosystem architectural styles like Event-Driven Architecture, Broker Topology or API-Led Architecture in designing for interoperability, not only as a means to enhance communication, but also as a strategic decision, aiming at lowering overall complexity of domain systems, improving architecture readability and securing domain cohesion.

We will also take a look at how modern Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) practices help build anticorruption layers and open-host services, where I will share insights, based on my previous experiences, as well as best application integration practices and approaches, to design integration platforms fitted to the business needs.

Key takeaways from the talk:
- Ecosystem architectural styles - interoperability focused approaches to design distributed ecosystems,
- Key relationship between DDD and Enterprise Application Integration,
- Using EAI as externalized Open-Host services and Anticorruption Layers