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Day: May 25, 2020

Posted on 25 May 202014 December 2021

Q&A: Backward Compatibility for APIs

We came across a question on the Embedded.fm Slack Group that we wanted to tackle: Are there any good resources out there for designing forward & backward compatibility into a new system? I manage a fair amount of testing suites and as I’ve upgraded or added new features, I’ve inadvertently broken scripts from previous releases …

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If you 'understand' something in only one way then you scarcely understand it at all. For then, if anything should go wrong, you'll have no other place to go. But if you represent something in multiple ways, then when one of them fails you can switch to another.Marvin Minsky

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