Reliable Third-Party API Integration Patterns

The retry, circuit-breaker, and dead-letter-queue patterns that keep an integration platform healthy when upstream APIs aren't.

Draft — full write-up coming soon.

This piece will go deeper than Designing Reliable Third-Party Integrations, covering backoff tuning, idempotency key design, and how to structure a dead-letter queue so replay is a five-minute operation instead of a manual data-recovery project.