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Product30 October 2023·3 min read

SFTP Integrations vs. Native APIs for User Provisioning

Every feature carries a maintenance bill that comes due long after the launch post.

Paycux engineering

Every feature carries a maintenance bill that comes due long after the launch post. The useful discipline is deciding, up front, who is going to pay it.

This piece walks through how we think about it at Paycux, what we have changed our minds about, and where the sharp edges are.

What is SFTP?

What is SFTP? deserves its own treatment. Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.

Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.

What are Native APIs?

What are Native APIs? deserves its own treatment. Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.

Defaults are the product. Most people will never open the settings screen, which means the behaviour you chose for them is the behaviour they will experience forever.

  • Choose defaults as carefully as features
  • Settle the name before you ship the thing
  • Ship the smallest honest version
  • Say plainly what the feature does not do

Comparing SFTP vs Native APIs

That brings us to comparing sftp vs native apis. Defaults are the product. Most people will never open the settings screen, which means the behaviour you chose for them is the behaviour they will experience forever.

Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.

Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits.

Harnessing Paycux for Efficient User Provisioning

Harnessing Paycux for Efficient User Provisioning is where this gets concrete. Defaults are the product. Most people will never open the settings screen, which means the behaviour you chose for them is the behaviour they will experience forever.

Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.

Where this leaves us

None of this is exotic. It is the ordinary discipline of deciding what you own, writing down what you assume, and making the failures loud enough to notice.

If you are working through the same problem and want to compare notes, the docs cover the mechanics and the console shows the behaviour on your own data.

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