Integration Architect
Part 1: How Systems Talk (Foundations: See)
Section titled “Part 1: How Systems Talk (Foundations: See)”How systems talk, and how to read what’s needed. Chapters 1–3 are Admins to Architects: a standalone section for admins, and the integration stage of the Admin to Solution Architect journey.
- Integration for Admins: What Every Admin Should Know · coming soon
- How a Call Works: The Client–Server Tango, Payloads and Swagger · coming soon
- The Admin’s Integration Toolkit · coming soon
- Reading the System Landscape · coming soon
- From Business Needs to Integration Requirements · coming soon
- Timing and Volume: Steve’s Number of Zeros · coming soon
- The Integration Patterns · coming soon
Part 2: Integrations That Hold (Practitioner: Design)
Section titled “Part 2: Integrations That Hold (Practitioner: Design)”The mechanisms in and out, Data 360 as a hub, securing the connection, and making it hold.
- Salesforce as Provider: All the Doors In · coming soon
- Bulk: The Bank Teller and the 18-Wheeler · coming soon
- Events: The Client Drives to My House · coming soon
- Salesforce as Client: Callouts in Code and Flow · coming soon
- Data 360 as an Integration Hub · coming soon
- Trust on the Wire: Encryption, TLS and Certificates · coming soon
- Who’s Calling: OAuth, External Client Apps and Integration Users · coming soon
- Failure, Recovery and Monitoring · coming soon
Part 3: The Connected Enterprise (Advanced: Direct)
Section titled “Part 3: The Connected Enterprise (Advanced: Direct)”The story of integration, then the enterprise and the agentic era, ending in judgment.
- The Story of Integration: From CORBA to Today · coming soon
- Middleware and the Enterprise · coming soon
- Virtualization and Mashups · coming soon
- Multi-Org, Backup and Restore · coming soon
- Agents on the Integration Map: Headless and MCP · coming soon
- Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Integration · coming soon
- Reviewing an Integration Design · coming soon
- What I Would Architect: Integration Edition · coming soon