tech-ops
API Integration Checklist
Build integrations that survive contact with production.
Read the docs and confirm scopes
Least-privilege credentials only.
~30 min
Store credentials as secrets
Never in code or client-side bundles.
~15 min
Handle rate limits and backoff
Exponential backoff with jitter on 429 and 5xx.
~30 min
Make writes idempotent
Use idempotency keys to survive retries.
~30 min
Validate and sanitise payloads
Never trust upstream data shapes.
~30 min
Log requests without secrets
Correlation IDs on every call.
~20 min
Add monitoring and alerts
Failure rate, latency and quota usage.
~30 min
Test the sandbox and failure paths
Timeouts, partial failures and revoked tokens.
~45 min
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