ESB
Enterprise Service Bus
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
ESB is the short form for Enterprise Service Bus — the middleware that enterprise architects either love or love to hate. It's the central nervous system of SOA that everyone is now trying to replace with event-driven architecture.
Real Talk
See 'Enterprise Service Bus.' ESB is the common abbreviation for the middleware pattern that provides centralized message routing, transformation, and orchestration in service-oriented architectures.
When You'll Hear This
"We're decommissioning the ESB and replacing it with direct service-to-service communication." / "The ESB pattern works for small numbers of services but becomes a bottleneck at scale."
Related Terms
API Gateway
An API Gateway is the front door for all your APIs.
Enterprise Service Bus
An ESB is the central highway that all your enterprise services communicate through. It routes messages, transforms data, and orchestrates workflows.
Message Broker
A Message Broker is the post office of your microservices world.
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
SOA is the acronym for Service Oriented Architecture — the architectural style that your company's senior architect keeps bringing up in meetings because t...