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API Versioning & Backward Compatibility

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APIs must evolve without breaking clients

APIs change. Fields are renamed, payloads restructured, features removed. But clients in production can't update instantly — some never update. API versioning lets you introduce breaking changes while maintaining backward compatibility for existing consumers.

The three approaches trade off simplicity, REST correctness, and CDN cacheability differently.

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