The Seven Deadly Sins of Versioning (Part 4): REST API Versioning

The Rise of the Humans In the book Liquid Software: How to Achieve Trusted Continuous Updates in the DevOps World, there’s a great deal of...

One of the best ways to create a software release is to use semantic versioning (SemVer), which features a major.minor.patch versioning number scheme. In most instances, there should be a direct interrelationship between a given piece of software’s SemVer version and REST API versioning. Being mindful that software will change far more often than REST APIs, there are some best practices in REST API versioning that are worth highlighting.

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