Is it possible to write a sum as an integral to solve it?

A General Trick

A General Trick for summing this series is to use Telescoping Series:
$$\begin{align} \sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac1{(3n-1)(3n+2)} &=\frac13\lim_{N\to\infty}\sum_{n=1}^N\left(\frac1{3n-1}-\frac1{3n+2}\right)\\ &=\frac13\lim_{N\to\infty}\left[\sum_{n=1}^N\frac1{3n-1}-\sum_{n=1}^N\frac1{3n+2}\right]\\ &=\frac13\lim_{N\to\infty}\left[\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}\frac1{3n+2}-\sum_{n=1}^N\frac1{3n+2}\right]\\ &=\frac13\lim_{N\to\infty}\left[\frac12-\frac1{3N+2}\right]\\ &=\frac16 \end{align}$$

An Integral Trick

Since
$$\int_0^\infty e^{-nt}\,\mathrm{d}t=\frac1n$$
for $n\gt0$, we can write
$$\begin{align} \sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac1{(3n-1)(3n+2)} &=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac13\int_0^\infty\left(e^{-(3n-1)t}-e^{-(3n+2)t}\right)\mathrm{d}t\\ &=\frac13\int_0^\infty\frac{e^{-2t}-e^{-5t}}{1-e^{-3t}}\mathrm{d}t\\ &=\frac13\int_0^\infty e^{-2t}\,\mathrm{d}t\\ &=\frac16 \end{align}$$