Description
This module teaches a practical framework for evaluating APIs, message buses, and middleware before integration projects. You will learn compatibility checks, versioning policies, and contract testing that prevent brittle connections. A performance section covers rate limits, back-pressure, and circuit breakers with simple test harnesses. You will assess security controls—auth flows, scopes, token lifetimes, and secret storage—with audit trails. Guides explain schema evolution, idempotency, and retries so upstream and downstream teams can move independently. You will map observability needs with logs, metrics, and traces that pinpoint cross-system failures. A readiness scorecard translates technical signals into go/no-go recommendations for leadership. You will practice documenting SLOs that reflect real user journeys, not just component uptime. Sample dossiers show vendor API risks and mitigation paths during procurement. By completion, you will confidently green-light integrations that are scalable, secure, and supportable. The approach reduces surprises in production and speeds up incident triage when issues occur.
Assessment guide + scorecards + sample test harnesses + SLO templates
3.5 hours
Contract testing, performance patterns, auth reviews, observability plans, SLO drafting.
Integration leads, platform owners, vendor managers evaluating third-party systems.
