Connector Invoices at Go-Live: The Hidden Costs of Integration Debt
Every go-live has a moment you don't plan for: the integration invoice. So start there now. Not the one from the consultant. The one from the connector you built in a sprint. It shows up in hours spent debugging, in API calls you didn't budget, in the ops call at 2 a.m. Nobody puts that on the budget. But it's real. And it's bigger than you think. Why Integration Debt Hits at Go-Live Build-time is a rehearsal. Go-live is the performance. You can run a connector in staging for weeks, and it will purr. Then production hits, and suddenly your invoices are forty minutes late, webhooks are backing up, and the partner's API starts returning 429s like it's personally offended. The code didn't change. The environment did.