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Building Microservices with Go
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Building Microservices with Go

by Nic Jackson
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Semantic versioning

Microservices should implement the Major versioning scheme. Quite often, designers will elect to only implement a Major version number and imply .0 for the minor version as according to the semantic versioning principles http://semver.org a Minor version would generally indicate the addition of functionality that has been implemented in a backwards compatible way. This could be adding additional endpoints to your API. It can be argued that since this would not affect the client's ability to interact with your API you should not worry about Minor versions and only concentrate on major as the client will not need to request a particular version without these additions in order to function.

When versioning APIs I think it ...

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