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Solace announced the addition of micro-integrations to its event-driven integration and streaming platform, Solace PubSub+ Platform.

The new Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations are small, lightweight event-driven integration modules that connect enterprise technologies – including legacy and SaaS applications, messaging services, databases, files, AI agents etc. – to an event-driven distribution layer, called an event mesh, enabling information exchange in real-time.

Specifically, PubSub+ Micro-Integrations liberate events data from source systems so it can be streamed over the event mesh, then seamlessly integrate the data to target systems. Consisting of a connector to get events on and off the event mesh, as well as one or more processors that transform event data for easy re-use by other micro-integrations, Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations are designed to help enterprises gain more value from their existing iPaaS and API management platforms:

- Speed: traditional integration solutions often suffer from latency, complexity, and performance bottlenecks due to centralized data processing and intricate network configurations. Designed from the ground up, Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations improve performance by handling connectivity and transformations near the systems to which they link in the event mesh

- Flexibility: traditional integration solutions also rely on tightly coupled integrations that make systems difficult and risky to change. The modular and decoupled nature of Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations makes it easier to integrate new applications and technologies like the artificial intelligence (AI) agents, vector databases and large language models (LLMs) that power generative AI (GenAI)

- Scalability: As more endpoints get linked by traditional integration solutions, point-to-point integration gets exponentially more complex, especially when information needs to be sent to multiple downstream systems. Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations let systems scale to meet growing demands by deploying additional instances at the source or target end of the equation, easily supporting increased traffic and distribution across multiple systems

- Resilience and Reliability: Point-to-point integrations present visibility and maintenance challenges due to their complex "spaghetti" architecture, making it difficult to identify and fix problems, and frequently causing cascading failures due to tight coupling. Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations replace the chaos of point-to-point integrations with publish/subscribe distribution that offers superior transparency, traceability and troubleshooting

- Operational Visibility: PubSub+ Micro-Integrations are fully integrated into the Solace cloud platform, offering a single window to view and track all integrations and events, eliminating the need to use multiple vendors or deploy and manage a homegrown solution

Generally available now, Solace offers a wide spectrum of both cloud-managed and self-managed PubSub+ Micro-Integrations for specific applications and technologies, and has partnered with leading integration vendors to complement their solutions:

- For Applications: including offerings for SAP, Salesforce, Snowflake, Oracle GoldenGate, Cloudera, Couchbase, Debezium, IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS, JMS, MQTT, NATS, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Azure Service BUS, Google Pub/Sub, SFTP and various Kafka-based solutions like Apache Kafka, Confluent, RedPanda, AWS MSK and Azure Event Hubs

- For Integration Platforms: Solace has teamed up with leading providers of integration platforms, including Boomi, Mulesoft and SAP, to develop tools that make it easier for their customers to adopt and benefit from an event-driven integration approach

"Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations are about to revolutionize the integration of applications in much the same way microservices changed the game for applications themselves – by decomposing monolithic integration flows into smaller, more manageable, purpose-built components," said Shawn McAllister, CPO and CTO at Solace. "In doing so, Solace Micro-Integrations will enable the event-driven integration it will take to meet the performance, reliability, agility and scalability needs of increasingly connected, real-time, and intelligent enterprises."