# Third Party Integrations

## Evaluating

* Avoid basing decision on cost, as this is a more invovled process, and you dont know the savings invovled
* This will be long term decision
* Developers will be part of evaluation

### Areas to investigate

* https://completedeveloperpodcast.com/third-party-integrations/
* How accessible and usable are their docs?
* What is their support like?
* How good are their development processes?
* Is their programming model familiar?
* How do they account for stability issues?
* What is the testing landscape?
* What are the restrictions on usage?
* Monitoring considerations
