API Integration Patterns

It's often said that connecting to an API is easy, but secure integrations that deliver seamless, effortless, and highly performant user experiences are hard. Every API is unique: Researching and building integrations means peeling back layers of nuance, including SOAP vs. REST, XML vs. JSON, different auth mechanisms, workarounds for migrations, webhooks vs. polling for eventing, unique error codes, limited search and discovery mechanisms, etc. Further, every data model is unique, requiring developers to solve complex data mapping and transformation problems for each integration.

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