I generally will use vcr[0] or something similar to record requests and then I write tests and code against that. 3rd parties go down, it happens. In general a

I generally will use vcr[0] or something similar to record requests and then I write tests and code against that. 3rd parties go down, it happens. In general a system that is dependent on a third party should have some non exceptional behavior when that happens. So if I’m not setup with vcr, and 3rd party is down- I would on the behavior for what happens when it’s down. [0] https://github.com/vcr/vcr https://github.com/vcr/vcr