Integration Architecture Starts Where System Architecture Ends

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. ...

April 4, 2026 · 5 min · Patryk Bandurski

What is MCP? The 'Universal Translator' Making AI Tool-Ready 🤖

Imagine a world where your AI applications can effortlessly connect to and use any tool or data source… without needing a deep dive into complex, custom API documentation every single time. Right now, connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) to the tools they need often looks like a tangled web of custom, brittle integrations. 🕸️ Every new tool requires another piece of unique code, creating a bottleneck that’s complex and prone to errors. ...

October 25, 2025 · 4 min · Patryk Bandurski