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Anytime you need to talk to a third party API, you need to test in prod. Some people have sandbox apis. They are generally broken and not worth it. See eBay fo
by brianwawok 4y ago
Anytime you need to talk to a third party API, you need to test in prod.
Some people have sandbox apis. They are generally broken and not worth it. See eBay for super in depth sandbox API that never works.
You can read the docs 100 times over. At the end of the day, the API is going to work like it works. So you kind of “have to” test in prod for these guys.
- lpapez 4y agoDitto regarding Paypal: you need a sandbox API token to get started with it. Their sandbox token generator was broken for MONTHS, I could not believe it. By the time we got the token, we already fixed all bugs on our side the hard way - by testing in prod - and moved on.
- kasey_junk 4y agocough CME cough
- brianwawok 4y agoHah did we even pretend to have a sandbox at CME? Outside like Saturday testing parties.
- kasey_junk 4y agoThere was a sandbox but it never behaved like the prod environments. To the point I had to have a flag to tell my order entry code if we were being certified in the sandbox or actually trading in prod. I’ve heard that got better after they replaced the gateways with fpga but don’t know for sure.
- brianwawok 4y agoAh yes, it's always great when you need special code to pass the certification test after which you disable for real prod.