Apis as Infrastructure: Optimizing for Change
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The article discusses the importance of treating APIs as infrastructure that needs to be optimized for change, and the discussion highlights the challenges of maintaining API stability while allowing for evolution in underlying systems.
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Keeping everything working without slowing development is harder than it seems, and common approaches often break down once incremental changes start to accumulate.