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Code Diary
- consisting of lessons learned on the job.
Be attuned to subscription expiration
Figure out limits before committing to a provider
Give vendors time to update their state before trying again
Manually test against production API in spikes to catch differences
Never assume data from a vendor is valid
Spend 10 min checking an API still exists before rushing into implementing
Stateful API data deletion involves two sides
Watch for interaction between globalrc and local config files