> or completely down at random hours Also describes "dinosaur payment company" API sandboxes (stage). So we end up testing against the production API with a s

> or completely down at random hours Also describes "dinosaur payment company" API sandboxes (stage). So we end up testing against the production API with a staff member's credit card - well if we want to deploy any time soon. Or I guess you could mock and cross your fingers that they haven't changed the API recently without telling you. Payment APIs are the most solid, but that's a low bar considering the state of third-party APIs in the real world. If it wasn't hard for enterprises to build and manage APIs, then Google Apigee and Mulesoft wouldn't be worth billions.