Does the API team have a "test third-party app", from where you can experience and test the API from a consumer's perspective?
If not, I think it may be helpful to you to have something like that. You don't need to run it at full stress all the time. When you roll out a mod to the API, or at times like these, you can run tests and do detail logging. That will enable you to detect and fix issues long before we start yelling at you. Dewald