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How FAANG Engineers Use API Versioning to Avoid Breaking Changes
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a practical skill that rarely gets flashy attention but saves entire teams from production incidents: API versioning. They break down why semantic versioning alone isn't enough, how Google's API Improvement Proposals (AIPs) standardize deprecation timelines, and the specific strategy of additive changes that Stripe used to maintain backward compatibility for years. Lucas shares a concrete example from his own experience where a missing version header caused a two-hour outage, while Luna explains the 'graceful sunset' pattern…
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