Data engineering·Moving data out of the source
the sync broke because the vendor added a field, and the fix was in somebody else's code that you configure rather than edit.
Connector
Also calledsource connector, sink connector, integration
A packaged piece of extraction or loading for a specific source or destination, configured rather than written. Buying rather than building these is nearly always right — the value is in the hundred edge cases of somebody's pagination and rate limiting — and the cost is that you inherit their opinions about schema, naming and incremental strategy. Every connector is a dependency with its own release notes, and treating one as infrastructure rather than as code is how a silent behaviour change reaches production.