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Mar 14, 2026 5 min

The Challenges of Evolving Your Service: API Versioning

from Architecture Corner Hosted by Mario Bittencourt

Once you ship a public API, you've made a promise. Keeping it while still moving forward turns out to be harder than most teams expect. In this episode, we will cover: What qualifies as a backward-compatible change, and what doesn't Why does introducing a new API version cost more than just writing new code The real reason clients delay upgrades, and what you can do about it How to support multiple versions without duplicating your entire codebase The adapter pattern is a practical way to isolate version changes at the edges Know more here: https://medium.com/itnext/the-challenges-of-evolving-your-service-api-versioning-8008349a1154 Subscribe, for free, to the Architecture Corner Newsletter at https://architecturecorner.substack.com

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