Integration¶

September 15, 2026
in Integration
2 min read

IBM App Connect Enterprise in practice

IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), the successor of IBM Integration Bus, is the integration engine inside IBM Cloud Pak for Integration. It connects systems that were never designed to talk to each other: an ERP, a REST API, a message queue, a file drop, a partner's SOAP service.

This is the mental model I wish I'd had on day one.

August 20, 2026
in Architecture, Integration
2 min read

ACE or Spring Boot? Where integration logic should live

Teams that have both IBM App Connect Enterprise and Spring Boot often ask the same question: should this go in ACE or in a service? Choosing badly leads to business rules hidden in integration flows, or hand-written plumbing that ACE would have handled for free.

Here's how I decide.