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API Integration Insights

Real experiences from the trenches of system integration and practical solutions that actually work

March 15, 2025

Why Payment Gateway Migrations Fail

After migrating dozens of e-commerce systems, I've noticed the same mistakes happen repeatedly...

Last month, we helped a local restaurant chain move from their legacy payment system to a modern API solution. What should have been a straightforward weekend migration turned into a three-week saga. The problem wasn't technical complexity — it was the assumptions everyone made about "simple" data mapping.

Stellan Voss
Integration Specialist
Case Study

CRM Integration Gone Right

A Bangkok startup needed their customer data flowing between five different systems. Here's how we made it work without breaking their existing workflows or causing data chaos.

Vesper Chen
March 2, 2025
Technical Deep Dive

Error Handling That Doesn't Suck

Most integration projects fail silently until something breaks spectacularly. We've learned to build systems that fail gracefully and tell you exactly what went wrong.

Vesper Chen
February 18, 2025
Industry Trends

API Versioning in the Real World

Theory says version your APIs properly. Practice says your clients will ignore breaking changes until their system stops working. Here's what we actually do about it.

Vesper Chen
January 22, 2025

Weekly Integration Notes

Get our Friday roundup of integration challenges, solutions, and the occasional rant about poorly documented APIs. No marketing fluff — just real experiences from actual projects.