Companies deal with integration problems in many areas and on many layers, and there are dozens of ways how to establish integration between systems, all with their individual trade-offs. However, loosely coupled integration does not only allow for designing independent systems that can be developed and operated individually, but can also increase availability and reliability of the overall systems landscape - particularly by using asynchronous communication between systems. While several text books describe standards for architecting integration and conversation scenarios, it's not always clear for architects which integration approach, technology, or in general which pattern is the best match for their given problem. Join this session to learn about the foundational patterns for integration and conversation scenarios, with an emphasis on the above mentioned principles of loose coupling and asynchronous communication. Based on a fictional company, you will then see how these patterns can be applied to real world use cases, here in a microservices landscape. Finally, receive guidance on integration technology based on these examples, with a focus on cloud-native and serverless services.