Integrating with Third-Party APIs with Nils Adermann

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Nils Adermann
about integrating with third-party APIs in PHP. Nils shares some
excellent advice, including:


Handling retries and timeouts

Efficiently and effectively working with multiple API vendors

How to work with vendors when their actions break your apps

Different types of responses (the good and the bad)

Writing tests

Using incremental backoffs

Working with rolling rate windows


Plus loads load more — including some vendor horror
stories!



Links


Private Packagist

Composer

Satis

Reliable Integration with Third-Party APIs in PHP



Guests: Nils Adermann.


Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.





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