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!

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Guests: Nils Adermann.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.


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