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API Engineering Fundamentals
PythonAPIspandasmatplotlibHTTP clients
Overview
Integrated the Open-Meteo API to retrieve historical weather data for multiple cities. The goal was not just to fetch data, but to build a production-oriented client that handles failure gracefully and is easy to observe.
Technical Approach
- arrow_forwardStructured logging across all API interaction points
- arrow_forwardException handling for network errors, timeouts, and unexpected responses
- arrow_forwardRetry mechanisms with exponential backoff to reduce pressure on external services under transient failures
- arrow_forwardTime-series aggregation with pandas across multiple cities and date ranges
- arrow_forwardComparative visualisations with matplotlib using multi-panel layouts