I pointed one Eloquent-style client at 62 public APIs. Here's how they answered.

At work I had a lot of external APIs to talk to from Laravel. Each one got its own little client, its own pagination loop, its own way of saying "not found". I wanted the thing I already knew, Post::where(...)->paginate(), to work against all of them, so I wrote laravel-rest. Later I spent a while on the performance side (eager loading,...