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Consuming Your APIs

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The size ofclient-side libraries, and the features included in them, can vary widely. We will discuss the pros and cons of including various responsibilities, like exposing network errors, or making service calls, validating service responses, caching expensive API calls, handling errors, and alarming when things go wrong.

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© 2016 Cloves Carneiro Jr. and Tim Schmelmer

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Carneiro, C., Schmelmer, T. (2016). Consuming Your APIs. In: Microservices From Day One. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1937-9_6

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