
SE Radio 576: Jens Neuse on Back Ends for Front Ends
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The Challenges of API Dependency Management
The biggest challenge with API dependency management and automating the process of building BFF is actually that every API is kind of different. It's actually a huge problem to find OpenAPI specified APIs that have like the same level of quality. So if you want to implement API dependency management, you actually need to find some sort of common denominator to facilitate that. And now if you have that, you can imagine that things like observability and telemetry become simpler tracing as you mentioned because now you have a clear sense of how these different actual dependencies are affecting your system.
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