INTEGRATION·02 April 2026·7 MIN READ
Integration spines beat point-to-point — eventually
When to invest in an event-driven integration spine, and how to phase the migration without taking the business offline.
Point-to-point integration is fast to start and impossible to maintain at scale.
An event-driven spine with documented data contracts is the target — but the migration path matters more than the architecture.
Run a reconciliation harness in parallel. Cut over by domain. Keep the business trading.