API design ensuring backward compatibility

api backwards-compatibility
Sampat picture Sampat · Jan 18, 2012 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

Are there any best practices to keep in mind while designing API's which ensures backward compatibility and new version releases. Any links to articles/blogs is appreciated.

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Peladao picture Peladao · Jan 18, 2012

You should check out this presentation about API design. It's from Google and pretty good. It also addresses backward compatibility and new releases.

How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters

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