Integrations Start Where API Documentation Ends
API documentation gets you to the first request. Real integration engineering starts when your system has to own the boundary between external behavior and internal meaning.
Building Integration Systems
Building Integration Systems contains 4 posts.
External Systems Lie
External systems do not fail only during outages. They drift, evolve, and quietly violate the assumptions your product has turned into invariants.
The Hard Part of Sync Is Deciding What to Believe
Bidirectional sync turns integration into an authority problem. Reliable systems need field ownership, conflict detection, event history, reconciliation, and explainable state.
Building Integration Systems That Survive Reality
Once integrations become business-critical, the work is no longer just calling APIs. Reliable integration systems need boundaries, state, failure handling, idempotency, observability, operations, and auditability.