In this episode Adi and Sascha dig deeper into what it means to consume and build APIs in Elixir and how a RESTful approach compares to choosing GraphQL as your weapon of choice. Along the way they discuss common pitfalls when building APIs (spoiler: one is caching), how to test all of this, and what their personal preferences and experiences are in creating APIs in Elixir.

Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs

Links* Finch - Finch v0.12.0 * HTTPoison - HTTPoison v1.8.1 * GitHub - elixir-plug/plug_cowboy: Plug adapter for the Cowboy web server * Instant GraphQL APIs on your data | Built-in Authz & Caching * JWT.IO * DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, ... How I put it all together * Protocol Buffers | Google Developers * GitHub - parroty/exvcr: HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR. * Boston Elixir June 2021 - Adi Iyengar - Levels of testing API calls * How I deal with behaviours and boilerplate - Sascha Wolf * A guide to fuzz testing

Picks* Adi- Reach out if you're hiring Elixir devs! (aditya7iyengar@gmail.com) * Adi- Buy a punching bag for both workout/releasing frustration * Adi- Testing Elixir * Sascha- Deep Rock Galactic