Apidays Virtual Helsinki - Andrew McCauley, Shopify
summary
Shopify explains why a painful 2017–2018 refactor to support multi-location inventory (added locations, inventory_item and inventory_level APIs) forces a predictable versioning model: the inventory API launched Feb 2018, four-person support handled 450 partner migrations from Mar–Jul 2018, the deadline slides five times to July 1, 2020, and on Apr 9, 2019 a quarterly versioning cadence begins. Versions live 12 months with a 9‑month migration window and tools like Developer Preview stores and an API health dashboard to surface deprecated calls.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:01The Path To API Versioning
- 3:21Make commerce better for everyone.
- 4:263700+
- 8:14The Migration
- 18:34A versioning strategy is not enough.
- 21:37Transparency goes both ways
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