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Maybe this makes me old, but I much prefer a written document explaining how an API works over Swagger.
Same. Especially since I’ve been building EDWs for most of my career. People are always surprised that it actually takes time to integrate with different systems.
“What do you mean you can’t just pull all the data out of this system that we don’t have database access to and are still building out the APIs?”
I kid… The people asking for stuff don’t know what backend databases and APIs are.
That would have been fine for me too. I don’t own the API, so I can only speak from a consumer perspective in saying: I don’t want a HTTP 200 if my request didn’t succeed.
I got pulled into a meeting with a team from AWS. I was told they were looking to implement a new solution, so I had to explain in detail how our data lake and data warehouse solution worked. I showed them how we pull data from all these different sources, how we have different integration patterns, etc.
At the end of my presentation, I asked “does that give you what you guys need? Or do I need to go into any more detail about anything specific? I don’t know what you all are actually building, so I’d be happy to provide more detail where you need it.”
Their response was “yeah that was all great info. We’re looking to build an app using AI and ML that allows you to run the business with a click of a button.”
I’m glad it was a remote meeting without cameras, because I literally face palmed. They didn’t have an actual use case or problem they were trying to solve. They were literally just selling a solution built on AI and ML. They didn’t know what it was gonna do, but by God they were committed to selling it.
The problem I ran into was the response returned a JSON body, but then had an “error” attribute that was returned in it that had the error details. So we were parsing the JSON and loading elements into our database. We were hitting the API passing in a datetime of when the last success job was run, so basically saying “give me everything that’s changed since I last called you.”
So yeah, eventually we noticed we were missing small chunks of data. It turned out that every time the API errored out, we’d get a valid JSON response that contained the error message, but it didn’t have the attributes we were looking for. So didn’t load anything, but updated our timestamp to say when our last successful call was.
Huge pain in the ass to troubleshoot, because the missing data was scattered with no distinguiable pattern.
I would destroy my television and burn the house down before I yell McDonald’s to keep watching something.
Prego
From my experience, they speak mostly with their hands
This legitimately happened to me a few months ago. A vendor API was returning HTTP 200 with the error details embedded in the JSON response. It was a pain in the ass to troubleshoot.
I actually think about plungers quite a bit. If I notice someone has a sink plunger instead of a toilet plunger, I immediately and forever judge the shit out of them.
Yeah I’m confused as to why that sentence was in the announcement.
Can you play it on a single computer or does it have to be two machines? If it’s a single, do you need two controllers or how does that work?
The new one is pretty good! I think it stuck to the original feel perfectly.
Haha I remember thinking the same thing playing Virtua Fighter on the Sega Saturn back in the day.
I debated on adding League of Legends to my list. It really is a good game, but it doesn’t make you feel good playing it. So I decided to leave it off.
I remember playing Mario 64 at my grandparent’s house when it first came out. My grandpa, who was born in the 1920s, was absolutely stunned. He said, “this is a video game?!” and then just sat and watched me play.
I think Curse of Monkey Island is the only Monkey Island game that I haven’t beaten. At the time, I really couldn’t get over the art style. Might have to give it another shot.
Is Obra Dinn that good? I started it but only played for about an hour. If it’s on your top 10 I might have to give it another look.