Stop Writing Integration Code. Write a Spec Instead.

Most enterprise integration work follows a familiar pattern. A team needs to connect system A to system B. A developer writes a client, adds authentication, shapes the response, exposes it somewhere. It works. It ships. Within a sprint it starts drifting from whatever documentation existed. Within a quarter, three other teams have written their own version of the same integration with different assumptions. This is not a tooling failure. It is a methodology failure. The integration int