You're working on a pipeline where a key part of implementation depends on data or events coming from an external system you do not control. Your job is to get the pipeline live while keeping the customer informed and reducing the risk of blocked delivery.
What would you do if a customer’s implementation success depended on another vendor’s system?
Handling upstream dependencies outside your controlUsing orchestration to model blocked and ready statesApplying data quality gates before customer-visible activationDesigning idempotent replays when vendors resend or backfill data