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How One CTO Uses API Versioning to Avoid Breaking Changes
Episode 72 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into the practice of API versioning as a strategy to prevent breaking changes in production. They discuss the pragmatic approach taken by Sarah Chen, CTO of a mid-size fintech, who implemented a URL-based versioning scheme with a sunset policy. Lucas explains how her team uses semantic versioning for APIs, communicates deprecations via response headers, and maintains backward compatibility for one year. They also cover the trade-offs between URL, header, and parameter versioning, and why Sarah chose the simplest route. The…
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