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Three integration pitfalls
Scripts, ownership, and recovery
Fragile scripts, unclear ownership of data paths, and no recovery story — and how to avoid them.
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- One-off scripts age badly
- Nobody owns the middle
- Failure is part of the product
Published15 January 2026
One-off scripts age badly
A quick CSV dump between payroll and ops works until a schema changes on Friday night. Durable integrations need versioned contracts, monitoring, and an owner — even when the connector looks simple.
Nobody owns the middle
When finance owns payroll and ops owns the field tool, the sync layer becomes orphaned. Name a system of record per domain and document who responds when jobs fail.
Failure is part of the product
Integrations will fail. Retries, dead-letter queues, and human-readable alerts turn outages into recoverable incidents instead of silent drift between systems.
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