Taming Event-Driven Integrations
How to keep event-driven integrations between SaaS systems observable, ordered, and debuggable.
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- events
- integration
- observability
Event-driven integrations are easy to start and hard to operate. Here is what actually matters after the demo works.
Correlation IDs Everywhere
Without a correlation ID flowing through every hop, debugging a multi-system event chain is archaeology.
Dead Letter Queues Are Product Features
A DLQ nobody monitors is a black hole. Treat replayability as a user-facing feature of your integration platform.
Schema Contracts
Producers and consumers drift apart. Version your event schemas and validate at the boundary:
const orderCreatedSchema = z.object({
orderId: z.string(),
amountCents: z.number().int().positive(),
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