Ask HN: When an API is down, what do you usually do?
When you are working with (in development) a third-party API and it is down, what do you usually do to spend time? Do any of you feel stress from the inability to be able to complete your project?
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.