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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

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