System Integration For Student Academic Affairs Management With Event-Driven Architecture

Abstract

System integration is the process of bringing separated components into one single system which ensures that the subsystems function to improve productivity and quality of the same operations. Thus, it is really challenging to integrate large system since the subsystems are not only internal but also third party instances. For example, there are quite unnecessary paperworks in the Office of Student Affairs of the International University – Vietnam National University because of the difficulties of integrating software systems. If there is a well developed software integration process, it could reduce a bunch of resources. There are some of the system integration methods that have been introduced, but none of them is a general solution that can be applied to various situation. Therefore, this thesis study will focus on researching a proper way to solve the above issue by embracing the strength of Apache Kafka and Spring Framework. The approach of this thesis is building a Student Academic Affairs Management System as an example of system integration using microservice architecture and event-driven communication style. The experiment indicates that microservices and event-driven are the recommended combination to formulate such system integration method.