Posts tagged "api integration"

A paginated import should resume from a committed cursor and stable item identities, not from a human page number that may no longer describe the same data.

Large API batches reduce request overhead until one bad record makes good records fail with it. A measured way to find the useful batch size and retry unit.

Schema validation catches only part of provider drift. Test the fields, behaviours, and semantic mappings your consumer actually depends on, then verify them safely.

A useful fake provider controls time, pagination, throttling, malformed data, and ambiguous writes. Test the integration protocol, not only JSON decoding.

A checkpoint is a claim about durable effects, not the last page fetched. Compare commit protocols and crash points so recovery repeats work instead of losing it.