Integration Best Practices: Why You Should Limit Integration Run Times

Integrating two APIs effectively involves fetching, transforming, and sending data, with considerations for run times due to factors like data volume or API speed. At Pandium, integration runs are capped at 10 minutes, a practice aimed at maintaining efficiency, ease of debugging, and resiliency against errors, despite the allure of longer run times for handling large data or slow APIs. To maximize the effectiveness of these short runs, strategies such as using concurrency, allowing seamless continuation of work across runs, and customizing data processing based on user preferences are employed. These approaches ensure that integrations remain fast and reliable, even under demanding conditions, by pushing developers to optimize code and collaborate with API developers for improvements.