Ask HN: When an API is down, what do you usually do?

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  • vcr

    Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.

    • I generally will use vcr[0] or something similar to record requests and then I write tests and code against that.

    3rd parties go down, it happens. In general a system that is dependent on a third party should have some non exceptional behavior when that happens.

    So if I’m not setup with vcr, and 3rd party is down- I would on the behavior for what happens when it’s down.

    [0] https://github.com/vcr/vcr

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