Integration engineer turned product manager. Built carrier adapters for parcel and freight across EU. Loves test harnesses and logs.
API-first design promised to solve integration headaches by designing APIs before building applications. Companies are investing heavily in this approach for 2025, expecting better developer experience and faster integrations. Yet 80% of carrier integration tests still fail during initial implementation, despite documentation that looks perfect on paper. The problem isn&
Webhook reliability in production varies drastically from sandbox environments, yet with roughly 20% of webhook events failing in production according to Hookdeck research, most integration engineers discover this gap too late. After spending 30 days testing webhook endpoints across 8 major carriers and platforms, the disconnect between sandbox performance and
Your carrier integration isn't ready for production until you've pushed its rate limiting to the breaking point. Research shows 75% of API issues stem from mishandled rate limits, with error rates jumping beyond 5% and response times crossing 500ms thresholds when systems buckle under load. Traditional
API breaches jumped 80% year-over-year with 650,000 sensitive messages exposed in just one incident this January. Trello's exposed API compromised data from 15 million users, while Dell suffered a breach affecting 49 million customer records through API vulnerabilities. For European integration teams managing carrier connectivity, these numbers
When your warehouse conveyor belt processes 20-30 packages per minute, every millisecond counts. For instance, conveyor-based shipping systems process 20-30 packages per minute, non-stop. Yet Even a 500ms call can back up flow, reroute packages to manual processing (the dreaded "jackpot lane"), and cause SLA failures or overtime
Last month, an e-commerce platform went live with their new UPS integration. The rates that you get in the sandbox may not match the rates that you get in production. Any negotiated rate discounts that you have are not applied in the sandbox and some rates are "dummy"
Weekly API downtime jumped from 34 minutes to 55 minutes year-over-year, while average API uptime fell from 99.66% to 99.46% between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025. That translates to 60% more downtime across more than 400 companies and 20 industries. This isn't abstract industry chatter. While
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