API integration Considerations

When designing an API that interacts with another API (service-to-service communication), there are several important considerations to ensure robustness, efficiency, and security. Service can communicate with other services synchronously (using rest/grpc protocols) or asynchronously (using message queues like rabbitmq or kafka). Below is comprehensive list for restful communication between API services:

1. Understand the External API

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  Documentation: Thoroughly review the documentation of the external API to understand its endpoints, request/response formats, rate limits, authentication mechanisms, and error codes.


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