APIs. You depend on them, but can you always trust them to work as advertised? The truth is that APIs can fail, and even when they don’t fail, they can perform in ways that are less than adequate. When that happens, your application may be left hanging, or worse yet, it may crash. What kind of failures are we talking about, and what can you do about them?
First, though, consider what an API does. It provides a way for a programmer to communicate with an external application or service, and to ask that application to do something. You may or may not know what the other program does internally with your data and your request, but as long as everything works correctly, all you need to know is how to use the API. But that is not enough to ensure that APIs perform adequately. https://goo.gl/CnRmHu #DataIntegration #ML
