We trying to develop a skill that calls an API. The API takes 50+ seconds to perform it's calculations and return a response.
Is there an official / supported method of developing a skill that takes this long? I can see that you can play an audio file to elongate the process, however it looks like the total response needs to have been provided within the 8 second limit, so this doesn't help.
Any thoughts?
Can you provide more information about what you are trying to achieve and restrictions?
It is usually best to optimize the API response time if possible. A strategy for doing so is pre-computing data and caching it in some cache. Depending on how you want to maintain the data, it could be stored in a SQL (RDS) or NoSQL (DynamoDB) database. If it is temporary data that will not be persisted long term, it is usually best to store it in a data store such as Redis
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