In a fascinating discussion, Suresh Jaganathan, a seasoned enterprise integration leader at Roche, delves into the transformative federated delivery model he championed at Unilever and Roche. He outlines how this approach enhances scalability and compliance while fostering innovation. Suresh emphasizes the importance of treating APIs as products, encouraging a culture of reuse through central marketplaces, and empowering teams to collaborate effectively. His insights on integrating API-led and event-driven architectures offer valuable guidance for enterprises seeking rapid, impactful delivery.
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Federation Enables Scale And Speed
Federated delivery scales integration by decentralizing responsibilities while keeping central governance for oversight.
It increases collaboration, flexibility, and speeds time to market across large enterprises.
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Faster Iteration Improves Compliance
Federation can improve compliance because domain teams better understand evolving regulatory needs.
Iterative, faster delivery lets teams address and adapt to compliance requirements more effectively.
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APIs And Events Are Complementary
API-led and event-driven architectures complement each other for different traffic patterns.
Use APIs for on-demand north-south calls and events for fan-out east-west scenarios with multiple subscribers.
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In this episode, Markus Zirn and Suresh Jaganathan explore the power of a federated delivery model, sharing insights from Suresh’s transformative work at Unilever and Roche. They discuss the benefits of this approach, like scalability, flexibility, faster time to market, and improved compliance. They highlight the importance of a product mindset and the role of federated delivery in fostering innovation and business value in large enterprises.
Timestamps
00:00 Episode Start
03:20 Why a federated delivery model?
14:45 Federated delivery across industries
18:56 Integrating API-led and event driven architectures
22:20 Advice for starting federated delivery
29:08 The citizen integrator dilemma
32:35 Suresh's greatest achievements with federated delivery
37:23 Importance of a product mindset
Episode Key Takeaways
Adopt federated delivery for scalability: Enhance scalability and flexibility by decentralizing integration tasks. Train teams to handle integrations independently, while maintaining central oversight for governance.
Create a marketplace for reusable assets: Build a central marketplace with reusable APIs, templates, and tools. Encourage teams to share and utilize these resources, fostering collaboration and efficiency.
Embrace a product mindset for APIs and events: Shift to treating APIs and events as products. Assign owners to manage them with ongoing updates, customer feedback, and continuous improvement.
Empower teams through integration champions: Establish integration champions to support federated teams with training, ongoing support, and regular workshops, ensuring successful implementation and continuous learning.
Top Quote
“Enablement is not a one time fire and forget exercise. It is a continuous exercise. So you need to have integration champions in your integration center for enablement team so that integration champions continuously engage with all the federated teams. They are not like policemen. It is more like a customer success person. So they engage with that federated teams to continuously educate them.”
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