So far, we have seen how to consume data and make sense of it, and how to work with manual automation using rules and schedules. In this section, we are going to look at how third-party services can integrate with our stack.
Imagine you want to have Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant as one of the interfaces to the smart devices that we built. These third-party services do not play well with our APIs directly and that is where this integration layer comes into the picture.
This is a custom layer that we will be using to write wrapper functions that act as a bridge between our API management layer and the third-party service. All this layer does is massage and accept data from Amazon Alexa APIs, and then it converts it ...
