REST APIs for partners, what’s the catch when applying best practices
summary
Private B2B API for five major clients encounters repeated data loss because integrators ignore 400 errors and business teams delay providing SKU lists. Fixes are concrete: require a ready project with required data and business-process checklist, run an acceptance process to verify integrations end-to-end, log everything (request bodies + errors) via a reverse proxy and notify on error spikes, keep an integration table to track endpoint usage so unused endpoints can be safely removed or negotiated, and delay building features until a sale.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:24Clients
- 2:39Private API
- 3:40API is evil
- 4:14Make it smooth
- 4:43Integration is all over the place
- 6:22Have a ready project for them
- 8:29Tools focused
- 10:51Log their input and errors
- 11:38Have an integration table
- 14:06Do their work
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