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APIs as Infrastructure: Optimizing for Change

bellangelo
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API design

software development

infrastructure management

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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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bellangelo
5h ago
APIs need to stay stable even as the systems behind them keep changing. Each version becomes a contract that cannot move, while data models and requirements evolve around it.

Keeping everything working without slowing development is harder than it seems, and common approaches often break down once incremental changes start to accumulate.

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