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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