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How to Stop Breaking Other People's Things

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This talk explains how API builders can identify changes that may break consumer integrations, help consumers build more resilient integrations, and release risky changes safely. It covers documenting edge cases, semantic versioning, contacting affected integrators, and mitigation.

Syllabus

Introduction
A sad story
Examples
Definition
Assumptions
Observer behaviour
MSDOS example
Assumptions are unconscious
Document edge cases
Naming
A change isnt breaking
Not all breaking changes are equal
Identifying which integrators to reach out to
Semantic versioning
Overcommunicating
Mitigation
Conclusion

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