With more and more businesses using SaaS platforms for their line of business apps it is now common for data engineers to need to pull and push data via an API.

Whereas before connectivity and queries for direct database access or ingesting flat files were relatively uniform, APIs introduce a lot of vaiation on implementation.

In this session we will look at some of the key considersations when we want to work with API sources. From authentication, to pagination, and handling JSON I will talk through how to get started pulling data from a REST API into our analytics solution.