API Design Backward and Forward Compatible APIs

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🚀 Build Your Own Platform & Launch Your Products! 🚀 Join the Out of DevOps community 👉 lab.outofdevops.com and get the resources you need to create your personal platform! Want 1:1 guidance? Book a call with me here 👉 stan.store/outofdevops My previous response provided a summary of the video content but was not specifically optimised for SEO. Here's a revised version with a focus on SEO optimisation: In this video, we delve into the complexities of API design and tackle the challenges of ensuring API compatibility for software engineers. Our tutorial covers the essentials of backwards and forwards compatibility in API design, providing practical examples using GoLang and JavaScript. Discover how to create a Twitter-like API that receives and returns payloads, while effectively managing new features such as hashtags without breaking the API. Learn about the concept of forward compatibility and the trade-offs involved in making an API forward compatible through payload validation. Explore strategies for introducing breaking changes without affecting clients, including the expand and contract method and version bumping. Understand the differences between private and public APIs, and when to use each approach. Uncover the various ways to implement version bumping, such as path-based versioning and header-based versioning. Emphasise the importance of monitoring API usage to know when it's safe to decommission old versions. Master the art of API design and compatibility in this comprehensive tutorial. Learn how to avoid breaking changes and when to use methods like expand and contract or version bumping. Enhance your API design skills and deliver seamless software engineering experiences. The code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/outofdevops/api-design The blog post is on my personal blog and on HashNode: - https://amasucci.com/posts/api-backwards-compatibility/ - https://hashnode.com/post/apis-backwards-and-forwards-compatibility-how-to-avoid-breaking-changes-ckyda3pyp02xd8hs19fjd0siq 👉 https://youtu.be/DtVDX_m1HLo #restapi #softwareengineering Chapters: 00:00 Hook 00:27 Intro 00:59 Our first API - API version 1.0 02:45 Adding features - API version 1.1 03:57 Backward compatible API 04:47 Forward compatible API 08:12 Introducing a breaking change Version 1.2 09:10 Expand and Contract 11:17 Version Bump 13:02 Conclusions WHO AM I: Hey friends, welcome to my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/OutofDevOps. If you're new here my name is Anto, here I talk about software engineering and software engineers. Don't forget to comment like and subscribe 👍🏻. YOUTUBE GEAR: 🎥 My YouTube Camera Gear - https://kit.co/outofdevops MY SOCIAL LINKs: 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/outofdevops 📘 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OutOfDevOps 📰 My blog - https://amasucci.com 🌍 OutOfDevOps Website https://www.outofdevops.com 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/outofdevops GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Tweeting @OutOfDevOps directly will be the quickest way to get a response, but if your question is very long, feel free to email me at [email protected]. PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜