The agile integration paradigm fundamentally shifts ownership of integration capabilities from a central team to the application development teams. To facilitate this decentralized model and achieve development agility, the underlying asynchronous infrastructure (messaging and events) must provide self-service capabilities. Self-provisioning and self-administration empower teams to create, configure, and manage their own resources (like queues or topics) on-demand, eliminating dependencies and bottlenecks associated with a central IT team. This autonomy is a cornerstone of agile integration, directly enabling faster development and deployment cycles.

A. While desirable, a simple HA topology is not a defining requirement. Agile integration can be supported by complex, distributed architectures as long as they are automated and manageable via self-service.

B. Converting messages to events is a specific integration pattern or function, not a fundamental characteristic of the infrastructure required to support the agile integration methodology itself.

D. Centralized logging is a crucial operational and observability feature for any distributed system, but it primarily supports administration and troubleshooting rather than directly enabling the development agility and team autonomy that define the paradigm.

1. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration Documentation (v2022.4)

"Overview of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration". In the section describing the platform's approach

it states: "Empower extended teams to create integrations securely

leveraging self-service capabilities that promote reuse." This directly links self-service to the empowerment of development teams

a key goal of agile integration.

2. IBM Architecture Center

"Agile integration architecture: An introduction"

Section: "Decentralized ownership". The article explicitly states

"To enable teams to work in this decentralized way

they need to be able to self-serve the integration capabilities that they need

when they need them." This confirms that self-provisioning is a mandatory feature.

3. IBM Redbooks

"Modernizing Applications for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (SG24-8480-00)"

Chapter 2

Section 2.1.2 "Agile integration". This section discusses the three tenets of agile integration

including "Decentralized integration ownership

" which is achieved by providing teams with self-service access to integration runtimes and capabilities.