What separates an integration that lasts
Most integrations are built for the happy path and then quietly degrade. The ones that survive share a small set of properties, and none of them are about which middleware was chosen.
- Idempotency: the same order arriving twice must not create two records
- Explicit reconciliation: a scheduled job that proves both systems agree, and alerts when they do not
- Visible failure: errors surface to a human with enough context to act, instead of retrying into silence
- Backpressure: peak-season volume queues rather than overwhelming the slower system
- A documented data contract, so the next change does not require reverse engineering
Middleware is a choice, not a strategy
Boomi, Workato, Patchworks, Prismatic and purpose-built serverless pipelines all work. The selection matters far less than whether the integration has ownership, monitoring and a reconciliation story.
We are equally willing to build custom where a platform would add cost without adding reliability, and to use an existing connector where one genuinely fits.