Evolving your APIs, a pragmatic approach

A remote attendance option on Zoom will be made available shortly before the talk starts.

The talk will be in English

Description

Like any architecture-related REST APIs are easy to get started on, but their lifecycle is hard manage if you don’t plan for it. Here is a pragmatic process to do that.

When you publish your first HTTP API, you’re more focused on short-term issues than planning for the future. However, chances are you’ll be successful, and you’ll “hit the wall”. How do you evolve your API without breaking the contract with your existing users?

In this talk, Nicolas will first show us some tips and tricks to achieve that: moving your endpoints, deprecating them, monitoring who’s using them, and letting users know about the new endpoints. The talk is demo-based, and I’ll use the Apache APISIX project for it.

About the speaker

Nicolas Frankel is a Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

Twitter : @nicolas_frankel
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Blog : https://blog.frankel.ch