* [Topics](/en/topics "Topics") * [Integration](/en/topics/integration "Integration") * Why choose Red Hat for middleware? Why choose Red Hat for middleware? ================================== Published August 2, 2022•*1*-minute read Copy URL Jump to section --------------- OverviewHow can it help?A platform for cloud native applications Overview -------- Red Hat’s middleware solutions provide a stable and secure foundation for building and modernizing applications and infrastructure. With Red Hat capabilities, you can create new products, modernize your existing services, and implement analytics to measure your success—all while remaining deployment-agnostic. ### Trust matters [Red Hat Application Foundations](/en/products/application-foundations) (middleware and services for cloud-native applications) can help you build an efficient, agile application infrastructure. Our solutions undergo extensive testing by a broad community, including Red Hat engineers, customers, independent software and hardware vendors, and partners. [Open source](/en/open-source/red-hat-way) is the Red Hat way. Red Hat Application Foundations provides cloud-native services so you can develop apps, integrate everything, and manage it all. Red Hat Application Foundations is lightweight to unlock cloud efficiencies and completely open. Whatever your needs may be, we’ve got you covered. How can middleware help? ------------------------ Red Hat Application Foundations is the evolution of traditional middleware for cloud native execution with lightweight, open source solutions for scalability and security. With Application Foundations from Red Hat you can speed up development, integrate your systems, applications and data, and unlock new capabilities with modern cloud architectures. #### Application runtimes [Red Hat Runtimes](/en/products/runtimes) provides l​​ightweight application runtimes and frameworks (like [Quarkus](/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/why-choose-red-hat-quarkus)) for highly-distributed cloud architectures, such as microservices. #### Application integration [Red Hat Integration](/en/products/integration) provides service composition and orchestration, application connectivity and data transformation, real-time message streaming, change data capture, and API management. #### Accelerate time to value with Cloud Services [Red Hat® Cloud Services](/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/cloud-services) include hosted and managed platform, application, and data services that streamline the hybrid cloud experience, reducing the operational cost and complexity of delivering cloud-native applications. Red Hat resources ----------------- [Keep reading](/en/resources "Keep reading") Create a platform for cloud native applications ----------------------------------------------- When combined with [Red Hat OpenShift](/en/resources/openshift-brief), Red Hat Application Foundations creates a platform for development and operations teams to build and modernize applications efficiently and securely while balancing developer choice and flexibility with operational control and security. [Red Hat Application Foundations](/en/products/application-foundations) delivers a comprehensive set of capabilities to help teams adopt modern and cloud-native architectures including foundational patterns like microservices, API-first, and data streaming. 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Application integration connects different systems and applications by enabling them to work together through exchanging data and using services. [Read the article](/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/application-integration "article | What is application integration") ### What is middleware? Middleware is software that provides common services and capabilities to applications outside of what’s offered by the operating system. [Read the article](/en/topics/middleware/what-is-middleware "article | what is middleware") Integration resources --------------------- ### Featured product * #### [Red Hat Application Foundations](/en/products/application-foundations) A set of components engineered to help build, deploy, and operate applications. Includes Red Hat 3scale API Management, Red Hat Data Grid, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, Red Hat AMQ, Red Hat builds of open source technologies, and a migration toolkit for applications. 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