The Fivetran Protocol eBook outlines best practices for building reliable data replication APIs to support analytics and decision-making. It emphasizes implementing incremental update strategies through change logs or modified timestamps with deleted flags, ensuring data freshness and efficiency. Key guidelines include providing complete endpoints for historical syncs, breaking large responses into pages, defining primary and foreign keys, and avoiding unnecessary joins to reduce latency. Consistency across naming, metadata, and endpoint behavior is crucial, as is clear documentation of attributes, parameters, and update strategies. A well-designed replication API enables seamless integration into cloud data ecosystems.

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