Integration engineer turned product manager. Built carrier adapters for parcel and freight across EU. Loves test harnesses and logs.
Most carrier API documentation promises neat rate limits like "1000 requests per minute" or "10 calls per second," but here's what they don't tell you: those numbers rarely hold up under real production conditions. After testing dozens of carrier APIs over the
October's cascade of carrier API failures exposed what many of us already suspected: uptime monitoring isn't enough anymore. ShipStation API is currently experiencing performance issues due to an ongoing AWS service issue. We are actively monitoring their status and its impact on our platform. We will
On January 17, 2025, DORA became applicable, creating mandatory security requirements for EU financial entities and their ICT service providers. For transport and logistics companies serving these sectors, the pressure extends far beyond simple compliance checkboxes. The regulation introduces stringent requirements on financial entities to establish robust ICT risk frameworks,
High-volume shippers processing 2,000+ packages daily face a harsh reality that the marketing brochures rarely mention: the number one complaint from high-volume customers using APIs is that their shipment processing times are slow. When your warehouse needs sub-second transaction speeds to efficiently process and stay ahead of daily shipping
95% of API attacks this year came from authenticated sessions, yet European shipping and logistics teams keep treating authentication like a security finish line instead of the starting blocks. Those API keys you rotate monthly? They're not stopping the attacks that matter. Only 21% of organizations report a
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