1. Understand the cost and complexity of service integration and consider all alternatives.
We’ve seen this movie before. Years ago, IT was dominated by service-oriented architecture concepts that are systemic to today’s clouds. We often looked for industry-specific services or APIs that could save us from writing those services ourselves. Sites like Programmableweb.com (now retired) arose as marketplaces for these APIs, and companies could choose from industry-specific services along with other common, useful services.
