Savoir vivre for applications - a few words on API versioning

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The talk examines API versioning challenges encountered when backend and frontend (JS SPA) evolve at different paces, including mobile apps with different release cycles. It presents the approach used building a new version of Answear: code examples and solutions for API versioning, consideration of backward/forward compatibility ideas from frameworks applied to APIs, and the tools and cultural practices adopted around versioning.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 7:31Application and API lifecycle
3. 15:41API versioning rules
4. 21:25Versioning implementation
5. 28:29Request and form versioning
6. 35:00API responses and serialization
7. 38:12Change documentation and collaboration
8. 42:07Deprecating old versions
9. 43:08Versioning beyond API
10. 47:03Summary

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