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The same truth about calling microservices inside a wider system (same company) is still valid for calling external (micro)services: one should avoid building up cascading failure scenarios.

On the other hand, REST is pervasive on the Internet and back-end to back-end REST calls cannot be avoided.

Take a look at related key concepts of Liquid
REST API as (formal) Object Model
Business Logic Separation

Hence for making it easier to call third-party APIs from a microservice, Liquid provides the ApiWrapper service as bellow.

var location = await new ApiWrapper("ZIPCODE").GetAsync<LocationModel>(zipcode);

See how this is done in Liquid Hotel360 sample application.