Recently concluded WSO2Con USA 2017 brought the concept which revolutionized and opened the eye of Agile Digital Transformation Through Open Source and we are being asked review the integration practices through a different angle. It’s a conjunction of integration paradigm or I should say the cross check of what we known so far; the launch of http://ballerinalang.org/. We thought the suitable phrase for the announcement as
Let’s Make Integration Great Again….
I guess, some of you may have heard same verbal during 2016 in one of the presidential election !! So, as same way as in political arena, WSO2 thinks Integration require a radical change, the change that would reflect and energize the integration, in fact, we need a top to bottom shake up. So, lets start what Ballerina is all about ;
The Problem; Integrating various systems is gonna be a monotonous task the problem has never ending cycle . We used to discuss various integration issues while working with different customers, we identified that there is a gap in the integration space where programmers and architects speaks in different languages and sometimes, this cause some panic when integration become complex and it has become bottleneck when someone trying to explain the integration in detail and then, the Integration has lot to do with diagrams. Top level people always prefer diagrams than code but programmers do the other way around. As result of that WSO2 engineering thought of filling this gap with a more modernized programming language.
Ballerina is constructive programming language designed for integration. It allows you to connect apps and services to handle all types of integration scenarios, such as collecting top tweets from a specific location and adding them to a Google spreadsheet, generating emails with real-time quotes pulled from a stock quote service, transforming and routing data based on advanced logic, and much more.