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The N×N Problem: Why Every Integration Platform Collapses Under Its Own Connector Count
The connector catalogue is the integration industry's proudest number and its quiet death sentence. The reason is a piece of arithmetic nobody puts on the slide: demand grows as the square of the systems, and connector-building grows in a straight line behind it. The gap is permanent.
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By Aaron Gammon · Founder, Inferrex · June 2026
This is the short, sharp companion to my pillar piece on comprehension over connection. That one makes the broad argument; this one does nothing but the maths, because the maths is the part that, once you've seen it, you can't unsee. It's the reason I'm confident the incumbents aren't behind through bad execution — they're behind through bad arithmetic, and execution can't fix an exponent.
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