IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Digital transformation results in a dramatic increase in the demands for data that’s currently locked away in back end systems. Simplistic approaches to accessing data place significant pressure on the backend system, and are dependent on its availability. By creating event streams based on changes in the back end data, consuming applications can build their own independent local “projections” to enable reliable low latency responses for their user interfaces. This subtly new take on existing event driven architecture patterns provides multiple opportunities for optimization and innovation.

This tutorial shows you how Instana and Turbonomic come together to bring end-to-end observability and automatic resource management of Cloud Pak for Integration components like App Connect and MQ running on Red Hat OpenShift.

Learn how to use IBM Cloud Pak for Integration to create, deploy, and test a new API using API Connect, bidirectionally sync Salesforce data with an application using App Connect, and replicate data using IBM MQ and IBM Event Streams.

The Cloud Pak Deployer tool uses configurations stored in a Git repository (a GitOps approach) to fully automate the deployment of Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on various cloud infrastructures. Each configuration file defines the desired end-state by defining the infrastructure, OpenShift cluster, and IBM Cloud Pak to be installed. Secrets are kept in a vault, which the Cloud Pak Deployer uses during the deployment.

In this article, we review of two asynchronous use cases - 'request for processing' and 'access enterprise data' - to help you learn more about enterprise messaging and event streaming technologies. Then, we discuss the key capabilities to consider when selecting the right technology for your asynchronous communication solution.

In this workshop, you learn how to create a fully integrated application using IBM App Connect. IBM App Connect, which is a key component of the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration platform (and available for free on IBM Cloud as a SaaS offering), showcases the agility of integrating applications on the cloud. You can use IBM App Connect to build integrations such as event-driven flows or flows for APIs.

In this article, we discuss the basics of API development, including API protocols and styles of API development. We also cover the key benefits of developing APIs.