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As a professional developer, you’re eventually going to have to work with a third party service. Other people’s systems can introduce very interesting experiences, especially as your interaction with those systems matures. Not only are third-party systems opaque, usually poorly documented, and often subject to change on short notice, but they can also play havoc with your own release cycle. In this episode we’ll talk about some practices for working with third party APIs without the constant risk of nasty surprises.