http://peti.to/tags/integrations/Recent content in Integrations on Ben PetitoHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +1030http://peti.to/posts/apis-dont-fail-loudly-enough/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +1030http://peti.to/posts/apis-dont-fail-loudly-enough/<p>When enterprise integrations fail, they rarely fail cleanly.</p> <p>We inherited a system syncing financial data between a property development platform and our database. On paper, it &ldquo;worked&rdquo;. In reality, it was quietly dropping records and skipping certain transaction types.</p> <p>This is the worst kind of failure: no outage, no alert, just silent data loss over time.</p> <p>The bigger problem: there was no architecture or process documentation explaining how the sync worked — or was supposed to work.</p>