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When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.

It's often easier to swap vendors when you are hitting HTTP endpoints directly than when you're dealing with a full blown SDK in large part because of the problems described. In my current SaaS project, I'm only dealing with a couple of endpoints for Twilio and Stripe, so my integration files are quite lean. Written by Kent C. Dodds A world renowned speaker, teacher, open source contributor, created epicweb.dev, epicreact.dev, testingjavascript.com.

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