Including SDKs in production, as the author alluded to, is completely situational. It comes down to answering the question: can you write a significantly highe

Including SDKs in production, as the author alluded to, is completely situational. It comes down to answering the question: can you write a significantly higher quality implementation to make it be worth your while? When it comes to starting out with a web service, a ruby gem or maven library, is invaluable. I love being able to work with an API within 5 minutes of setting up my dev environment. As other's also mentioned, it does cut down on support calls for the provider.