Technical questions
The technical implementation of a shop integration raises numerous questions. From choosing the right API architecture through performance with large data volumes to error handling in distributed systems: in this section we address the technical details.
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- How is data consistency between systems ensured? Data consistency is not a single mechanism but the interplay of several building blocks. Unique identifiers (master keys) link a product or customer across system boundaries, so…
- What happens when a system is temporarily unreachable? Outages of individual systems are normal in operations, whether from a maintenance window, an update or a network glitch. Our middleware architecture is built for exactly this…
- How performant is synchronization with large data volumes? Performance depends on the chosen integration pattern, the target system's interface and the data volume. Throughput depends on the limits of the systems involved; message queues…
- What security measures protect data transfer? Security is addressed on several layers. All data transfers are encrypted via TLS. API access is authenticated via OAuth 2.0 or API keys, protected against abuse by rate limiting…
- Can the integration be extended incrementally? Yes, extensibility is a core principle of our architecture. It is built modularly so that new data flows, additional systems and extended business logic can be added without…
- Do you support real-time synchronization? Yes. For time-critical data flows we implement real-time synchronization via webhooks and an event-based architecture: a change in the source system triggers the transfer…