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Enterprise API Management
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Enterprise API Management

by Luis Weir, Rolando Carrasco, Philip Wilkins
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
300 pages
7h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Promote, deprecate, and retire

As APIs and services evolve through multiple design and development iterations, naturally, new versions are created to reflect the fact that changes have taken place, such as new features being added, improvements to existing features, or even just bug fixes. Regardless of the type of change, the fact remains that handling versions is a critical aspect of any software development life cycle.

However, having a strategy in place to handle API versioning isn't enough. If the process of rolling out changes isn't carefully thought through, such as how to deal with non-backward-compatible versions, there can be negative repercussions, such as breaking the API consumer's code or even ending up with too many versions ...

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