# Best Practices for Using Third-Party APIs

DevFeed: [Best Practices for Using Third-Party APIs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/best-practices-for-using-third-party-apis-15543.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/best-practices-for-using-third-party-apis>)

Author: W Ian Douglas

Published: 2025-02-05T10:30:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [third-party](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/third-party.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how developers can optimize integrations with third-party APIs by using caching effectively. It covers choosing data to cache, setting time-to-live values, invalidating stale data, and applying strategies for inventory and temporary reservations. It also mentions Redis, Valkey, Memcache, requests-cache for Python, and stale-while-revalidate in TypeScript.

## Source excerpt

Optimizing third-party API integrations for your user experience