API Contracts That Age Well
Practical rules for designing HTTP and event contracts that survive version churn.
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Most breaking changes are accidental. Explicit contracts and deprecation windows keep client teams shipping.
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API Contracts That Age Well
Audience
Engineers owning public or cross-team APIs.
Principles
- Additive first — prefer new fields over renames
- Explicit error codes with stable machine-readable keys
- Document pagination and filtering defaults
- Publish deprecation windows before removal
Review checklist
Use the included PDF before shipping a v1 or a breaking change.
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