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• What are the requirements for the interface for each of these areas? What are the most important factors for the success of this interface?

  • Performance - how much traffic will be coming into this interface, how large are the messages, complex processing?

  • Security - how is the data coming into the interface? how is it coming out? internal or external network? Encryption required?

  • Reliability - how should the interface handle errors (connectivity, message based, etc.)? How likely is it to experience certain types of errors and how can you structure the interface so that you are able to continue functioning in the event of an error.

  • Scalability - how likely are you to duplicate this interface or parts of the workflow in future interfaces? How can you structure it to scale up in prod?

  • maintenance - how easy is it to maintain this interface? does it require KT? who will be maintaining and troubleshooting? easy?

• At the same time you must consider constraints such as cost, time and resources.