Preface

The integration and IT landscapes have dramatically evolved since the first edition of this book was released in 2009. Both API and mobile platform adoption have exploded, changing the way IT thinks about application integration. Advances in virtualization technology and the ever-decreasing price of storage have led to massive, horizontally scalable computation and data storage approaches. The broader acceptance of polyglot application development has led to cross-platform messaging solutions. Businesses are beginning to realize the value of the convergence of these as big data and are extracting real value from them.

In many ways, the early promises of service-oriented architecture are being realized, albeit in ways very different ...

Get Mule in Action, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.