Integrating services without blaming the interns

Glue work is anthropology: translating incentives, quirks, flaky sandboxes—and writing it down before someone heroic screenshares creds “just once.”

Draw the escalation ladder early

When sync fails quietly, humans improvise dangerously. Decide what retries, alerting, manual pause, or human ping looks like beforehand. HTTP idioms documented on MDN help cross-team chatter stay precise.

Name the compromises

Duplicate sources of truth sneak in politely. Admit them: “finance is authoritative here”, “marketing still blesses Shopify tags there.” Scripts should echo that story in logs, not bury it under INFO spam.

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