Architecture & patterns5 min read
A canonical data model in Boomi
Stop writing a mapping for every pair of systems: design a small canonical order model and implement source, canonical and target mappings with shared profiles and maps in Boomi.
#Boomi Integration
Articles and guides on system integration, APIs, automation and iPaaS platforms.
Data mapping & formats6 min read
Translating codes between systems with Boomi Cross Reference Tables
VAT categories, payment methods and warehouse codes differ in every system. How to translate them with Boomi Cross Reference Tables instead of hardcoding, and keep them right per environment.
Application integration6 min read
Error handling and retries in Boomi integrations
Transient vs permanent errors, retries with backoff, a review queue for what needs a human, and alerts: a practical error-handling design, built step by step in Boomi Integration.
Application integration6 min read
Syncing e-shop orders to your ERP with Boomi
Incremental polling with a watermark and idempotent creates: how to move e-shop orders into the ERP without missing or duplicating any, built step by step in Boomi Integration.
Workflow & low-code apps6 min read
Connecting a Boomi Flow app to integration processes
How a workflow app should talk to the ERP: keep system logic in integration processes, call them as services, and build it with a Flow Service in Boomi Flow and Boomi Integration.
Data mapping & formats6 min read
Mapping a JSON order to XML with Boomi maps and profiles
Turn an e-shop JSON order into an ERP XML order: profiles from samples, a Map with date, concatenate and lookup functions, and testing the result step by step in Boomi.
DevOps & operations6 min read
Monitoring Boomi integrations: what to watch and what to alert on
Execution history, runtime health, email alerts and events in Boomi, how to feed errors into your central monitoring, and which conditions are actually worth an alert.
Security & identity6 min read
OAuth 2.0 connections in Boomi: client credentials and authorization code
Choose the right OAuth 2.0 grant type for a SaaS API, configure it on a Boomi HTTP Client connection, handle token refresh and scopes, and fix the most common errors.
DevOps & operations5 min read
Packaging and deploying Boomi processes across environments
Versioned releases for integrations: packaged components, deploying to test and production, release notes, rollback, and automating it all from a CI pipeline with the Boomi Platform API.
Testing & quality6 min read
Testing Boomi processes during development
How to test integration flows while you build them: fixed sample inputs, Boomi Test mode on a test runtime, inspecting documents shape by shape and deliberately testing error paths.
Testing & quality6 min read
Regression testing Boomi integrations before deployment
A test-harness pattern for integration flows: fixed inputs, expected outputs and automatic comparison, run against a test environment and triggered from a pipeline via the Boomi Platform API.
Security & identity5 min read
Managing secrets and certificates across environments in Boomi
Keep passwords, client secrets and certificates out of your processes: per-environment values with Boomi environment extensions, Certificate components, rotation and expiry tracking.
Architecture & patterns6 min read
Sync vs async integration in Boomi
When to wait for the answer and when to accept a request and process it later: the same order API built both ways in Boomi, with a 202 response and a queue.