Notes & takes
A few judgment calls we made while building the integration layer. Three to start, more as we go. Not a blog system — just an index.
Protocol matrix
20 min read
2026-05-26
PV inverter cloud APIs, ranked by integration difficulty: 9 production notes
Based on real integrations from Zenergy Monitor production: nine vendor APIs annotated from the actual interface docs — auth, resolution, backfill, downlink, doc churn.
Read articleArchitecture call
15 min read
2026-05-26
Why energy SaaS teams shouldn't roll their own inverter adapters: 3 years in production
First-time cost, long-term maintenance, API revision incidents, decision framework — based on three years of Zenergy Monitor production.
Read articleDeployment mode
12 min read
2026-05-26
Cloud API vs Self-Hosted: how energy groups choose a device-data integration architecture
Data residency, credential management, compliance, SLA boundary — five procurement dimensions decide the deployment model, plus Cloud → Self-Hosted migration path.
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The index grows along three tracks: protocol matrix, deployment architecture, enterprise rollout.