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If you are delivering software or hardware products that include weather forecast, do not rely on anyone else's API directly. Build a wrapper service and direc
by bionoid 8y ago
If you are delivering software or hardware products that include weather forecast, do not rely on anyone else's API directly. Build a wrapper service and direct your clients there.
As a particularly disasterous example, the Yahoo Weather API was unchanged for the longest time. Integrators worldwide deployed thousands - no probably millions - of systems using an unofficial "Yahoo Weather Module". It was the canonical solution.
Then they made a breaking change to the API and everyone cried.