Sep 18 2008
Micro-integration vs monolithic systems
Why integrate, when we can use a big single system to do everything?
The answer is simple - smaller niche applications do a single role much better than huge applications do every role. What’s better for blogging; blogger or geocities? Would you use hotmail or cpanel to organise do your email?
But it’s very annoying to go around to every site - updating blogger when you want to talk about some news, logging in to gmail when you want to send an email, logging in to your webstore when you want to update product prices - all these logins, passwords and starkly different interfaces can get overwhelming quickly!
Bring in the power of integration - what if all of your blogger posts would automatically show on your main website frontpage? What if you could post on blogger using the same administration area as you do when you update your webstore? What if, whenever you logged in to your website administration section, you were also logged in to blogger, so you could get there and do the more advanced functions at the click of a button?
You wind up getting the best of both worlds! One centralised interface, one username and password, one place to log in - unlimited access to the various applications and frameworks out there. And it’s virtually unlimited - any application with a published API can theoretically be added to the mix!
