Integration Architecture Starts Where System Architecture Ends

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When I think about integration, I naturally zoom in — APIs, flows, transformations, connectors. That’s the world I live in daily as an integration architect. A recent training made me realize I’ve been solving the right problems at the wrong level.

The course “Strategic Integration Design with DDD” by Karol Skrzymowski and Philipp Kostyra introduced me to a perspective I hadn’t fully articulated before: integration architecture is not system architecture. It’s ecosystem architecture. And that distinction changes everything.

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Integration Architecture Starts Where System Architecture Ends