Which Integration strategies are there?

Question

We are having a discussion about Integration strategies.

The main argument is about what is a strategy and what is a technique. For example Hub-and-Spoke is a strategy, but REST is a technique. Or maybe not?

What would be your list of integration strategies?

Answer 1

I would argue the two most important strategies are:

• Service calling (Real-time integration), and

• Batch Calling

My take is that the following are integration techniques:

• Hub-and-spoke,
• Publish and subscribe,
• Point-to-point, and
• Large file transfers

REST and SOAP are Web Service Calls / patterns.