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Discussion on: Real World Developer's Problems: API Versioning

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Tolis Christomanos

The problem is that to integrate with an evolvable API is too much work on the consumer especially when the features can change so often in this fast pacing world...

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Jason Mulligan

That means it was poorly designed and/or implemented. The man that defined the style says it's an anti-pattern.

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Tolis Christomanos

Fielding's dissertation is open to so many interpretations...

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Jason Mulligan

That's rich, since it's a spec.