Over 61% of organizations are now using GraphQL, yet most carrier integration teams stick with REST without understanding the performance implications. After testing both approaches across DHL, UPS, and FedEx APIs, we've gathered concrete data on which architecture delivers better results for shipping operations. The choice between GraphQL
API downtime surged by 60% between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025, with average uptime dropping from 99.66% to 99.46%. This translates to approximately 10 extra minutes of downtime per week and close to 9 hours across a year. For carrier integration teams managing multi-carrier shipping APIs, this isn&
API authentication has become a battleground. Between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025, average API uptime fell from 99.66% to 99.46%, resulting in 60% more downtime year-over-year, while 99% of organizations experienced API security issues in the past 12 months. DORA fully applies from 17 January 2025, and the
European shippers learned October 2025's lesson the hard way. While your application monitoring tools registered healthy systems and normal CPU usage, customers couldn't check out. 72% of implementations face reliability issues within their first month of production deployment, and between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025, average
UPS's mandate to migrate to OAuth 2.0 authentication by August 2024 arrived at the worst possible time. While carrier API OAuth security teams scrambled to meet integration deadlines, the cybersecurity landscape witnessed a seismic shift in 2024-2025 as threat actors, led by groups like ShinyHunters (UNC6040), systematically
Between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025, average API uptime fell from 99.66% to 99.46%, resulting in 60% more downtime year-over-year. That number represents 350,000+ carrier integration teams discovering their monitoring systems weren't built for multi-carrier environments where FedEx, DHL, and UPS APIs all throttle simultaneously
API downtime surged by 60% between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025, with average uptime dropping from 99.66% to 99.46%. For carrier integration teams, this translates to something more troubling: duplicate shipments and inventory mismanagement when retry logic fails. The October 2025 carrier API outages revealed that most idempotency
Enterprise TMS teams managing carrier integrations for UPS, FedEx, DHL and other major carriers face a stark reality: over 90% of organizations report downtime costs exceeding $300,000 per hour, with this average holding true even for small and midsize businesses up to 200 employees. Yet most teams still rely
FedEx Freight currently handles roughly 90,000 shipments per day, operates more than 350 service centers across North America, and generates nearly $9 billion in annual revenue, so when this division becomes an independent company by June 2026, the integration challenges for enterprise TMS platforms won't be minor.
Your webhook endpoints pass every sandbox test. Your rate requests return perfect responses. Your authentication flow works flawlessly. Then you deploy to production and 72% of implementations face reliability issues within their first month. Sound familiar? The carrier API testing reliability gap isn't just about different environments—it&
Between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025, average API uptime fell from 99.66% to 99.46%, resulting in 60% more downtime year-over-year. That's not just statistics—it's production reality hitting European shippers trying to maintain reliable multi-carrier integrations during peak season. Our test harness has been
European carrier integrations are failing at rates that should terrify any integration engineer managing real-time logistics. Nearly 20% of webhook event deliveries fail silently during peak loads, while average weekly API downtime rose from 34 minutes in Q1 2024 to 55 minutes in Q1 2025. You can't build
The numbers don't lie. API growth exploded by 167% in 2024, with 95% of organizations experiencing production security problems and 23% suffering actual breaches. In the carrier integration space, this translates to a perfect storm of vulnerability where sensitive shipment data, payment information, and logistics intelligence sit behind
Integration bugs discovered in production cost organizations an average of $8.2 million annually. Contract testing catches these issues early, reducing debugging time by up to 70% and preventing costly downstream failures. But when you're dealing with carrier integrations—not just generic microservices—the stakes multiply. One challenge
GraphQL's rise in carrier API integrations isn't matching its sandbox testing promises. Statistics recently released by the Gartner report reveal how more than 60% of enterprises will use GraphQL in production, up from less than 30% in 2024. Yet our testing across European carrier integrations shows
CAMARA project, an open source community addressing telco industry API interoperability, announced the third meta release of its stable, production-ready Network APIs in October 2025, positioning itself as a solution to decades of fragmented carrier integrations. The project has grown to 1300+ contributors among 476 organizations, with 45 sandbox API
CAMARA's third meta release arrived with promises of hardened security profiles, but 99% of organizations encountered API security issues within the past 12 months according to Salt Security's latest research. The gap between GSMA Open Gateway's "plug-and-play" vision and production reality has
Watching a €2.1 million TMS rollout crumble because carrier APIs couldn't handle the traffic surge during peak season isn't just expensive—it's the kind of failure that threatens the survival of mid-sized German automotive parts manufacturers, who've already invested six months
CAMARA's third meta-release shows how API standardization can work at scale—with 1300+ contributors among 476 organizations managing 60 released APIs. Yet most carrier integration teams miss what this reveals about security blind spots. Your DHL tracking webhook fails silently. Your UPS rate API returns stale data. Your
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