In this episode Adi and Sascha dig deeper into what it means to consume and build APIs in Elixir and how a RESTful approach compares to choosing GraphQL as your weapon of choice. Along the way they discuss common pitfalls when building APIs (spoiler: one is caching), how to test all of this, and what their personal preferences and experiences are in creating APIs in Elixir.


Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Finch - Finch v0.12.0
•  HTTPoison - HTTPoison v1.8.1
• GitHub - elixir-plug/plug_cowboy: Plug adapter for the Cowboy web server
• Instant GraphQL APIs on your data | Built-in Authz & Caching
• JWT.IO
• DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, ... How I put it all together
• Protocol Buffers | Google Developers
• GitHub - parroty/exvcr: HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
• Boston Elixir June 2021 - Adi Iyengar - Levels of testing API calls
• How I deal with behaviours and boilerplate - Sascha Wolf
• A guide to fuzz testing

Picks

• Adi- Reach out if you're hiring Elixir devs! ([email protected])
• Adi- Buy a punching bag for both workout/releasing frustration
• Adi- Testing Elixir
• Sascha- Deep Rock Galactic

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