Do you have any links to some blog posts discussing it (the "doing it right" app...

neeleshs · on Sept 8, 2020

Thanks! Haven't had a chance to write a lot about this (heads down building and selling), but https://syncari.com/a-brief-history-of-todays-data-woes-and-... touches on it a bit.

For us, it is about:

* implementing deep integrations that are commonplace

* not spraying too thin in the quest of supporting hundreds of systems

* thinking from a data model/data/eventually consistent system perspective

* completely dropping the reactive/trigger based/if-this-then-that point-to-point model.

newcrobuzon · on Sept 9, 2020

Thanks Neelesh for the link, I like the way of thinking with the focus on data.

It is similar with what I am seeing - i.e. lots of older integration systems are terrible with data simply because they force you to use some way of data modeling (e.g. their OOP data models, WSDLs/XSDs etc.) while the newer ones just rely on json which is good but can lack the (sometimes necessary) complexity. To do some data cleansing on the way then seems like an unachievable task (there is certainly such a thing as overdose on XSLT ;) ).

I also like the approach you took with centralized data dictionary - it certainly is something the industry might need, I would wonder how it impacts change management though (especially in bigger companies).

Wishing you good luck!