Whats new in Microservices
Two new API-related services, Singer.io and Kong.io, have recently come into the fore. These are 2 very different technologies that are timely in their sudden rise to prominence.
Singer.io is an ELT tool (Extract Load Transform - as opposed to commonly known ETL) developed by Stitchdata.com to complement their data warehousing product. It solves the problem I call universal connectivity. Being open-source and plugin-based I believe Singer.io is the right approach for ecosystem that supports many API-enabled applications.
Kong.io is also an interesting project. Developed by Mashape, it is an enterprise microservices API platform from which to manage, transform and transmit data. It may seem heavy-handed to add (yet) another layer in the API services mix, but Kong will be an essential component to reliably manage data flows in any digitally-minded organisation.
The complexity of a large multi-node network of applications can be solved by microservices (MSA). This approach decentralizes the integration problem, and allows data flows to operate independently of each other. New flows can be added while core integration features can be re-used. Singer and Kong are some of components essential to the microservices approach.