Production / Operating model
Production Overview
Move from a working API call to an integration your team can operate: one decision gate at a time, with a clear ownership boundary and a release record another engineer can read.
Decision path
Move one gate at a time
Question to answer
Can the client prove the request and response contract it depends on?
- Exit gate
- Contract tests pass against a non-production project.
- Bring to review
- Endpoint, required headers, consumed response fields, client version.
Boundary
Know what your team controls
- Your application
- Credentials, end-user and project scope, request deadlines, retries, fallback experience, telemetry, stored inputs, and incident response.
- Public API contract
- Documented endpoints, required headers, status behavior, and response fields. Re-check the API reference when your code depends on a specific field.
- Commercial terms
- Availability, support, recovery, and capacity commitments come from your agreement — not from observed behavior or implementation detail.
Handoff
What a professional handoff contains
Another engineer should be able to operate the integration from your release record alone, without private platform knowledge.
Contract testIsolation proofFailure policyQuality baselineTraffic estimateRollback owner