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Elixir library for safely using any external service or API using automatic retry with rate limiting and circuit breakers. Calls to external services can be synchronous, asynchronous background tasks, or multiple calls can be made in parallel for MapReduce style processing.

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README.md 

# ExternalService



An Elixir library for safely using external services using customizable retry

logic and the circuit breaker pattern.



## Documentation



See [my blog post](https://ropig.com/blog/use-external-services-safely-reliably-elixir-applications/) for overview documentation, and then check out the [API reference](https://hexdocs.pm/external_service/api-reference.html) for full details.



## Installation



If [available in Hex](https://hex.pm/docs/publish), the package can be installed

by adding `external_service` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:



```elixir

def deps do

  [{:external_service, "~> 0.7.0"}]

end

```



Documentation can be generated with [ExDoc](https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc)

and published on [HexDocs](https://hexdocs.pm). Once published, the docs can

be found at [https://hexdocs.pm/external_service](https://hexdocs.pm/external_service).