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Gabriel Kanev
Gabriel Kanev

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Best way to stay on top of the services you use?

I'm sure that older projects have this problem. From time to time, some kind of API change/URL drops/IP changes (the list goes on and on) and the service stop working correctly. The clients are angry and I have to be the bad guy. (again)

Are there any good blogs/websites/API or something that I can easier check all the services I use without needing to leave more than 1-2 hours a month?

PS. I tried the mail rough but it takes a lot more time and in some cases, I receive junk emails intended as "updates".

Thank you! :)

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Mišo

Can you add some more specific examples? For dependencies, I use GitHub's Dependabot (and VersionEye before it) and for services like PostgreSQL, Python, ... there is a trick to use some repo with Dockerfile where you add all your services so Dependabot will notify you about the update for the Dockerfile. But I don't know anything about the APIs. I hope someone suggests something :)

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