37Your product calls thirty third-party APIs, each with its own rate limits and quotas. Design the integration layer.▼mediumRazorpaySwiggyInfosys◆ premiumVendor limits are a shared budget your own teams will fight over. Broker the capacity, degrade by priority lane, and never let feature code see vendor HTTP semantics.Open full answer →
27Your product depends on a model API and the provider has a regional outage. What did you build beforehand?▼hardStripeCloudflareUber2 notes & comments○ sign inA model provider is a single dependency with a shared failure domain across every customer they have. Treating it like a database you cannot fail over from is how a product goes down for four hours.Open full answer →
