> The simplest change that we can make, as a consumer of these potato-shaped APIs, is to submit them in parallel. This is also a good way to check if their bac

> The simplest change that we can make, as a consumer of these potato-shaped APIs, is to submit them in parallel. This is also a good way to check if their back-end code is free of race conditions, and after pointing out strange problems get a note from their developers that you should not send multiple concurrent requests to their REST API. Been there, done that, with a huge vendor for, well, accounting software.