Learning From Real API Failures
Here's what we've learned after spending countless hours debugging integration issues that could have been prevented. Last month, we helped a client avoid a complete system meltdown when their payment API started returning inconsistent response formats.
"The most expensive API failures happen on Friday afternoons when your team is heading home and your customers are trying to complete purchases."
We document these experiences not to scare anyone, but because understanding what goes wrong helps you build more resilient systems. Every integration test we design comes from something we've seen break in production environments.