Overview of Software Development Kits and Small Development Kits using Stripe and the Req HTTP Client

In this blog post, Wojtek Mach dives into Software Development Kits (SDKs), outlining their common features and challenges using various Elixir projects as examples, including GitHub, Stripe, AWS, and Google. The author addresses issues like code bloating, abstract internals, and rapid API changes, and suggests an alternative called Small Development Kits (SDKs) that are more focused and minimalistic. Wojtek illustrates this new approach with a custom Stripe SDK implementation at Dashbit, showing how it provides more control and flexibility. The post also covers strategies for handling API requests and testing, and includes a section on integrating Stripe webhook listeners using a GenServer in Elixir.