I love this! I love working with data integration, and connecting different APIs and databases, and I actually think there's incredible opportunity to be artful and creative when you're "moving bits", especially once you start to get into "how do I make this configurable for future use cases?" or "what is I need to move/process a large volume in a short time on undersized hardware?"
I also want to throw out that I do still encounter a ton of "poorly documented" APIs, but they can be almost as fun as they are frustrating. I can really enjoy "black box" developing an integration sometimes, where all you can do is throw input at it and see what the get back. : )
Definitely, and you can often see why an API is "poorly documented". It takes more effort to document something well that to design it well, and as a developer you often need to take into account things that are very hard to document (performance, scaling) anyway.
What I like the most is when I can get quickly started with a starter project and easy test tokens. This often means that it will also be easy to set up tests and catch edge cases later on.
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I love this! I love working with data integration, and connecting different APIs and databases, and I actually think there's incredible opportunity to be artful and creative when you're "moving bits", especially once you start to get into "how do I make this configurable for future use cases?" or "what is I need to move/process a large volume in a short time on undersized hardware?"
I also want to throw out that I do still encounter a ton of "poorly documented" APIs, but they can be almost as fun as they are frustrating. I can really enjoy "black box" developing an integration sometimes, where all you can do is throw input at it and see what the get back. : )
Definitely, and you can often see why an API is "poorly documented". It takes more effort to document something well that to design it well, and as a developer you often need to take into account things that are very hard to document (performance, scaling) anyway.
What I like the most is when I can get quickly started with a starter project and easy test tokens. This often means that it will also be easy to set up tests and catch edge cases later on.