Mastering Idempotent Gateway Sync: Resolve Conflicts, Implement Pagination, and Maintain Focus

TL;DR Syncing config into an API gateway (Kong here) is a converge operation, not an insert. Re-running it must be safe. Three bugs, one theme: adopt an existing record on a 409 UNIQUE instead of throwing; read every page of a list API, not just the first 100; never let a scoped plugin silently esca