REST APIs provide a flexible, lightweight way to integrate applications, and have emerged as the most common method for connecting components in microservices architectures.

Learn what the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) does and how it works with other Java platform components to run Java applications.

Message brokers are an inter-application communication technology to help build a common integration mechanism to support cloud native, microservices-based, serverless and hybrid cloud architectures.

iPaaS is a cloud-based solution that simplifies application integration across on-premises and cloud environments, to help you accelerate innovation and lower your integration and operations costs.

In this guide, learn more about the ESB (an essential component of SOA), the benefits it offers, and how it relates to microservices architecture.

Explore SOA (service-oriented architecture), an important stage in the evolution of application development and integration.