The Silent System Killer: When APIs Evolve Wrong
Your mobile app just pushed a critical security update to 50 million users. Within hours, legacy Android devices start crashing because they can’t handle your new API response format. Meanwhile, your latest iOS app expects new fields that your old API version doesn’t provide. Sound familiar? This is API versioning gone wrong—the hidden complexity that turns system evolution into system chaos.
Today we’ll master the art of evolving APIs without breaking everything, exploring strategies that keep Netflix streaming to billions while continuously deploying new features.
What You’ll Learn
Five battle-tested versioning strategies and their hidden trade-offs
How major platforms handle backward compatibility at scale
Production patterns for zero-downtime API evolution
Monitoring strategies that prevent versioning disasters
Hands-on implementation of a multi-version API system
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The Versioning Strategy Matrix
